Linguistic​ and Conceptual Justice in AI

“Driven by the de facto dominance of English, AI multilingual alignment shows a form of cross-linguistic deference, a systematic tendency to resolve cross-linguistic disagreement by treating the English judgment as authoritative, rather than acknowledging the natural cross-linguistic inconsistency of human natural language.” That’s from the “Cagliari ​​Statement on Linguistic​ and Conceptual Justice in AI​“, which objects to correcting such inconsistencies” in ways that “suppress legitimate semantic plurality and progressively establish English (spoken natively by only about 6% of the world’s population) as the de facto standard for what meanings should remain equivalent across languages.” Antonio Ballero, “Mattino di marzo” Rather, according to the statement, “language models require language-specific alignment, grounded in rich data on how ordinary speakers actually use their words in each language.” The statement, which is currently open for signatures, includes distinct…