The Application of ChatGPT in Translation Teaching: Changes, Challenges, and Responses

ChatGPT is a new natural language processing machine learning model with strong content production capabilities. ChatGPT has the potential to transform traditional translation teaching models, effectively assisting personalized teaching, promoting students’ autonomous learning, constructing new teaching subject relationships, innovating teaching management models, promoting the transformation of knowledge production methods, and expanding the research space of translation education and teaching. At the same time, the application of ChatGPT also poses potential risks, such as weakening learning autonomy, alienating teaching subject relationships, damaging academic integrity, triggering knowledge security risks, ethical risks, and ideological risks. In order to address challenges and fully leverage the potential of ChatGPT in translation teaching, it is necessary to innovate teaching models, reform teaching processes, enhance students’ self-learning abilities, strengthen translation ethics education and ideological risk education, and enhance the digital literacy of teachers and students. The new artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT has strong teaching potential as a “human like teacher”, but it cannot replace the human factors in education and teaching, thus cannot change the essence of education. In the future, teachers will still play an irreplaceable role in many aspects.