The Creative Death of Humanity: AI Tools Like ChatGPT Undermine Integrity, Erode Imagination, Foster Dishonesty and Increase the Number of Fake Authors- Professor Dr. Khaliquzzaman Elias

The Creative Death of Humanity: AI Tools Like ChatGPT Undermine Integrity, Erode Imagination, Foster Dishonesty and Increase the Number of Fake Authors Professor Dr. Khaliquzzaman Elias Distinguished Professor of English & Translator E-mail: khaliquzzaman.elias@gmail.com Editor’s Note This translated interview situates Elias’s work within the wider discourse of translation studies, postcolonial theory, authorship, and digital ethics. Professor Elias conceives of translation as an act of creative re interpretation—one that unites fidelity with cultural fluency while resisting both reductive literalism and the growing encroachment of artificial intelligence in literature. In dialogue with frameworks such as Skopos Theory, his model of translation emerges as a vital intervention in contemporary debates on translation ethics, authorship, and machine-generated creativity. The interview further contributes original perspectives on postcolonial translation praxis, advancing the view that translation is not secondary or derivative but an autonomous literary form—one that embodies humanistic resistance, fosters cultural empathy, and affirms intellectual depth. — Editor, Ideas