Dr Maite Melero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
As AI-driven language technologies become increasingly central to global communication, concerns grow about their impact on linguistic diversity and cultural heritage. This lecture examines the historical forces shaping language dominance and extinction, and explores how current advances in Natural Language Processing and large language models may both endanger and enable the preservation of non-global languages. Grounded in perspectives from linguistics, language technologies, and AI ethics, the talk calls for action to ensure that technological innovation supports equitable and culturally aware language futures.