"I just assumed that it would translate": examining MT risk awareness among healthcare staff with abbreviations as a use case

arXiv:2610.02496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the UK, public healthcare staff report turning to machine translation (MT) - predominantly Google Translate (GT) - to communicate with patients across language barriers. Though intended to support their duty of care, potentially uninformed reliance on MT in such contexts could have serious consequences for patient safety. Research nonetheless…