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This paper investigates the perspectives of both teachers and students on the benefits and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into translation studies at a public university in Southeast Asia. The study surveyed 68 final-year undergraduate students majoring in business and tourism translation via an online, structured questionnaire in Google Forms and conducted a focus group discussion with all five translation lecturers. The findings reveal that most research participants believe that integrating AI has enhanced students' translation speed, accuracy, and overall translation outcomes. Students also improved their translation process thanks to AI analyses of differences among AI-generated translations and feedback from AI tools. However, the naturalness of AI-generated translations, including the inability to grasp culturally specific content, idiomatic expressions, colloquial language, and nuanced meanings, particularly the risk of students’ overreliance on AI, are still the existing concerns mentioned in research findings. The impacts of AI applications on translation studies and the pedagogical implications of emphasizing the role of human translators in the AI era will then be discussed and proposed accordingly for translation students, teachers, and curriculum designers.
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