What the US government's figures say about this job, the tasks it involves, and every study we found on what AI does to it. None of this is a forecast of your own job.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects every job ten years ahead and says what it expects to drive the change.
“Computer tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), are making the work of translators”
Part of a longer sentence. BLS also says "Nearly all translators use software in their work."
BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Aug 27, 2026
$28.93 an hour
As the government's O*NET database lists them. AI's effect on a job depends on which of these tasks it can do.
O*NET OnLine, Oct 6, 2026
We haven't found a trial or study of AI in this job yet. The score below is the best measure so far of how much its work overlaps with what people do with AI.
0.49on a scale from 0 to 1
Microsoft AI applicability score for Interpreters and Translators (SOC 27-3091)
How much of the occupation's work activities overlap with what people successfully do with Microsoft's Bing Copilot; not a forecast of job loss.
Highest score of any occupation in the paper's main table.
Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0
How far the evidence has got for tasks this job involves, on our six-step ladder.
Every taskChecked Oct 19, 2026. How we check
