Launching Babel Translation

Celeste and I are excited to launch Babel Translation, a nonprofit organization translating English-language writing on AI safety to be accessible to a global audience! We’re starting with Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese.

AI has been moving so fast. Its risks are indeed globally felt, and we’d like to help make those risks understandable globally, too. But language remains a barrier to shared engagement in AI safety. Much writing & discussion is in English, and high-quality translations that preserve substance and nuance can be hard to find.

Babel has a great founding team, including my wonderful friend Jinzhou, and we are excited to absorb more! Our previous work includes the Mandarin Chinese translation of METR’s OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report.

Babel is also personally exciting. Celeste and I met a few months back, and we bonded over being diaspora kids who like languages, trying to make sense of the AI craziness and traveling around China together. I’m also excited to have more Chinese-language content to point my grandparents to when they ask me what this AI stuff is all about :)

Work with us!

Babel is (1) opening the call for translations and (2) hiring translation contractors. To reach out about either opportunity, email us at hello@aistranslate.org, or fill out a 2-minute form here. We’ll read and respond to every message!

To request a translation:

If you or your organization have impactful AI safety content you’d like translated (e.g. essays, blog posts, draft standards, video or podcast transcripts), reach out to us!

We’re prioritizing low-friction handoff, fast turnaround, and personalized effort.

To join our translating team:

We’re hiring paid contractors with:

• native-level language skills in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and/or Japanese;
• strong writing and editing skills;
• AI safety context.

If you join our team, we’re also excited to support your general development in AI safety, through coaching and guidance!

1. As evidenced by the Australian government breach disclosed yesterday, agent swarms on German DSEWiki, the HuggingFace attack, the Alibaba ROME incident… We’re all in it together 🫡