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Message: [QUOTE="Nehanda, post: 23586, member: 2262"] Cultural diversity matters as much as the variety of plants and animals on Earth. We need both to keep our world healthy and rich. Languages play a big role in keeping cultures alive. Each language carries special ways of thinking and living, helping to pass down wisdom from old to young. AI language tools are making English even stronger than before. These tools mostly use English data, which puts other languages at risk. More than 3,000 languages might die out soon. Another 3,500 languages face growing pressure, even big ones like Chinese and Spanish. The internet already clearly shows this problem. English accounts for more than half of all websites, while Spanish comes next with only about 5 percent. AI systems often work best in English because they learn from lots of English text online. This makes more people use English instead of their languages. When people stop using their language, they can lose parts of their culture. Companies that make AI tools usually speak English. They find it difficult to make their tools work well in hundreds of different languages, as each language needs special care to match its rules and culture. Many experts worry that AI will make some groups feel left out. But they often forget how AI affects different languages. Language shapes how people see the world. We must act to protect all languages. Just like saving animals keeps nature strong, keeping languages alive makes human life richer. Each language shows us a special way to see life. We need tech companies, governments, and language experts to collaborate. They should create AI tools that help all languages grow stronger. This can keep our world's cultures alive for our children and grandchildren. Saving languages means more than keeping words alive. It means protecting different ways of thinking and living. This helps everyone create better answers to hard problems. People need to know how AI affects languages. Tech builders must care about helping all languages, not just English. This can make AI good for everyone, no matter what language they speak. [/QUOTE]

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