Fuck AI

The title is the original title from the Guardian article, but does not match the content accurately. The fundamental problem is that Icelandic is a small language, and English-language media is already dominating. This puts Icelandic in danger of dying. Now, AI threatens to accelerate that process, especially since of all things the AI company Anthropic is now working with teachers to provide teaching material for them:

“Having this language that is spoken by so very few, I feel that we carry a huge responsibility to actually preserve that. I do not personally think we are doing enough to do that,” she said, not least because young people in Iceland “are absolutely surrounded by material in English, on social media and other media”.

Katrín has said that Iceland has been “quite proactive” in pushing for AI to be usable in Icelandic. Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a partnership with Iceland’s ministry of education, one of the world’s first national AI education pilots. The partnership is a nationwide pilot across Iceland – giving hundreds of teachers across Iceland access to AI tools.