The Rome Seminar 2025: AI and ethics in interpreter training

Friday, Saturday, February 21, 2025, February 22, 2025
Organizer: ATPD
Location:  Via della Lungara 19 Casa Internazionale delle Donne Rome IT

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Trainers
:  Laura Keller
Date: February 21-22, 2025

Times: 13.30-16.30 on Friday and 09.30-17.00 on Saturday
Location: Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Via della Lungara 19 , Rome, Italy https://www.casainternazionaledelledonne.org/ 

Fees:
AIIC members, candidates and pre-candidates: 200 CHF
Non-members: 250 CHF

For information about the seminar, contact Gillian Misener (misenerg@sympatico.ca), Stefano Marrone (s.marrone@quirinale.it)

For help registering, contact AIIC Headquarters (aiic_hq@aiic.org)

About the seminar

This workshop is intended to provide participants with the conceptual tools necessary to identify and evaluate ethical challenges that come with the use of AI applications in training and work settings. It provides an overview of:

  • the most relevant AI technologies and how they work
  • the ethical challenges accompanying them
  • the ethical frameworks helpful for considering AI-related challenges

This is not a hands-on workshop to test tools for interpreters or learn how to use them. This interactive workshop features lecture-style input, practical group exercises and discussion sessions to help interpreters and interpreter trainers better navigate the more fundamental questions that arise with the use of AI their professional settings.

Target audience

Interpreters and interpreter trainers who are confronted with demands for and questions regarding the use of AI technology in their training and work settings, and who seek to be better equipped to gauge the ethical challenges this may entail.

Financial support for participating trainers

ATPD is offering financial support to up to four interpreter trainers to attend this seminar. The grant covers an economy return airfare (upon presentation of a valid ticket) up to a maximum of CHF 1000. It does not cover the cost of registration.

Applicants for the 2025 support should have their professional address outside Europe and/or have Ukrainian as a working language and should be able to demonstrate that they are practicing conference interpreters who regularly teach conference interpreting. Attendance at, or organisation of, interpreting-related training events will also be considered in the review of applications. AIIC members and non-members may apply.

Applications must be submitted to ATPD (training-group@aiic.org) by 16 December 2024. The results of the selection procedure will be announced as soon as possible after this date.

About the trainers

Laura Keller has worked as a freelance conference interpreter on the Geneva private and institutional markets for over 12 years. She has the four national languages of Switzerland plus English in her combination and is accredited with the European Institutions. Laura has a background in interpreter training, experience in language policy consulting, holds a PhD in interpreting studies and is currently pursuing an MA in ethics, specializing in questions relating to ethical considerations in the context of the digital transformation.