A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet I n February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta’s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test whether AI could put him out of work. Gentric had been