Signal AI Literacy for Legal Translation: Developing Digital Resilience

Summary

Legal translation scholar Łucja Biel argues in a paper that generative AI brings opportunities to professional legal translation alongside linguistic, technical, legal, ethical and cognitive risks. The paper proposes an AI literacy framework tailored specifically to the legal translation profession. The author argues that AI does not change the fundamental objectives of legal translation itself, but that professional competence needs to be extended through AI literacy. The proposed framework consists of four mutually reinforcing dimensions, foundational, procedural, critical and strategic. The framework conceptualizes AI literacy as a component that cuts across legal translation competence as a whole while also fostering digital resilience. The paper also proposes concrete classroom activities for developing AI literacy in legal translator education.