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When composing or translating poetry, AI stumbles when trying to convey mood, metaphor and emotion. Jeremessias/iStock via Getty Images

June 25, 2026

The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI

AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, at the Vatican on May 25, 2026. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

May 26, 2026

Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution – as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape

Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder

Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.

There are many ideas about why languages evolve – and all of them are likely to contain an element of truth. Shutterstock

February 6, 2020

Curious Kids: why do people in different countries speak different languages?

Howard Manns, Monash University and Kate Burridge, Monash University

Languages are always changing and evolving- largely because humans have alwasy been on the move.

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Howard Manns
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
Kate Burridge
Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
Nathan Schneider
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Krupa Shandilya
Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College

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