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A new statement on AI and language argues that multilingual systems should be aligned using language-specific data, rather than treating English meanings as the default. It is open for signatures, according to Daily Nous.

The statement says English is dominant in training data and argues that models can fail to reflect how people use words in lower-resource languages. Its authors frame choices about how AI behaves across languages as normative, not merely technical. That is a pointed challenge to the idea that fluent translation is the same as understanding. Should AI developers build separate language-specific alignment into their systems, even if it makes development slower or more complex?

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