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We Are Not Machines

Sarah O’Connor, Allen Lane (UK); Godine (US, out 11 August)

If you are a fan of translated films, you may have noticed the subtitles on streaming platforms have changed in recent years. They aren’t wrong exactly, but they can come across as a bit, well, flat.

“You get the meaning, but the language? It’s not as rich,” Petr Čermoch, a translator in the Czech Republic, tells Sarah O’Connor in We Are Not Machines, which explores how artificial intelligence is changing the way we work.