New York legal aid and nonprofit groups have borne the brunt of legal needs for millions of immigrants and refugees, and recent developments in AI translation tools have sparked the organizations’ curiosity.
There are about 2.5 million people in New York with limited English proficiency, but use cases like real-time translation are years off, as is live in-courtroom translation. And the groups say access issues as well as questions around the programs’ reliability make them works in progress.
For now, AI tools to help immigrants fill out forms or translate documents appear to be closest to implementation.
“Translation is a ...
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