"Icelandic has only about 350,000 speakers and is among the world's least-altered languages. 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."
"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. During her time in government, Katrin said they could see the threats and dangers of AI and the importance of ensuring that Icelandic texts and books were used to train it."
Icelandic faces rapid change as English use rises and AI models are trained predominantly on English material, reducing Icelandic reading and speaking, especially among young people. The language has about 350,000 speakers and remains among the world's least-altered tongues; losing it would erase cultural value and unique human thought. Iceland is pursuing measures to support Icelandic in AI, including a nationwide education pilot with Anthropic that gives hundreds of teachers access to AI tools. Ensuring Icelandic texts and books are used to train models is viewed as essential to mitigate AI threats and preserve the language.
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