ISLA2025: Key-note 1

Key-note 1 / Conferencia Magistral 1 / Palestra 1 Transforming the language of science Andrew Burton-Jones, University of Quensland For nearly a hundred years, English has been the global language of science. While the use of one major language has helped science to advance in some ways, in other ways it has led to a range of biases that constrain who can participate in science, who can perform well, and who can benefit from science. This problem was long considered just a natural part of science, perhaps a necessary evil. However, we should not take it for granted any longer. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) now allow us to imagine a multilingual future of science. How can we work together across fields to imagine and create such a future? How can the IS field and the ISLA community play a role?