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In person icon Linguistic Justice and Technology

Gender
Political Theory
Social Justice
Identity
Internet
Communication
Normative Theory
Technology
P277
Andrew Shorten
University of Limerick
Yael Peled
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Andrew Shorten
University of Limerick

Abstract

Emerging technologies as well as the spread of digitalization raise complex and so far largely unexplored questions for linguistic justice, which is itself a relatively new field of academic inquiry concerned with how states, institutions and people should respond to linguistic difference. This panel will provide an opportunity to consider and explore various normative issues raised by digital and online technologies for the use, status and representation of different languages. Topics addressed include gender biases in Large Language Models (LLMs), the multifaceted implications of machine translation technologies for linguistic agency, the potential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to become ‘digital Leviathans’, the ethical issues raised by the unequal provision of digital supports for different languages, and the scope of non-distributive linguistic injustice.

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