The Danish print and digital editions of *TRANSITS AND SOLAR RETURNS*—spanning 638 pages and measuring approximately 15×23 cm—are available now. As always, special thanks go to KDP/Amazon for the extraordinary platform that allows for the management of multiple editions of the same book, and a huge thank you to ChatGPT 6, ASTRA, and Work—wonderful tools made available by OpenAI.
In this regard, I would like to make an observation, without wading directly into the debate between AI proponents, opponents, neo-Luddites, and so forth.
It is often said that AI will eliminate many jobs, but I am not entirely convinced of this.
Consider when Gutenberg invented his movable-type printing system, first testing it on the 42-line Bible. Even then, there were surely many who said: “Now, so many skilled monks will be out of work!”
But things turned out quite differently—something I can attest to from personal experience. About thirty years ago, I began taking sachets of RCK+r (potassium ascorbate plus the ribose ion—equivalent to 10 grams of Vitamin C daily; a regimen based not on “homeopathic suggestion,” but on the major discovery made by chemist Linus Pauling in the early 1950s—for which he won a Nobel Prize—regarding the use of 10 grams of Vitamin C a day to fight cancer). These sachets cost very little—almost a negligible amount—and I learned that they were prepared by monks at a specific monastery who dedicated themselves almost exclusively to this task.
So, while there is fear today that many translators might lose their jobs—and perhaps they will—new professional roles will emerge almost simultaneously, such as experts in crafting the complex prompts needed to get the best results from AI in this field.
