Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

AI and Multilingualism Q5: The One Misconception This Book Most Urgently Corrects

Jacques Coulardeau & Md. Merajul Islam

2026 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/ai-and-multilingualism-q5-the-one-misconception-this-book-most-urgently-corrects-c19603e06ba5

SILENCE ON THE RANKS AND IN THE LABS!

Despite all that has been said on the positive dimension of silence, meaning outside silence, silence around you, people still consider silence in history, silence in anthropology, and silence in archaeology, as meaning the absence of what we may or might be looking for.

Let me and us be clear: Silence is the absence of any noise to our ears! But that does not mean there is nothing to be found if we should try to look for something. That reminds me of an episode in the Dentistry Ward of Hospital Val de Grâce in Paris, a military hospital. It was in 1968. All dentistry students who had finished their basic years of study opted to serve their military service in a military hospital, which was practice for their future professions.

I was complaining about a toothache. The dentistry graduate who was looking after me made a first X-ray image of the tooth and saw nothing. So, he did what he had been told to do. He adjusted the X-ray apparatus and made a second X-ray picture. On this one, there was a cyst at the tip of the root of the tooth. With these contradictory pictures, he asked his fellow dentist graduate next to him: “Which picture is the proper picture?” His fellow graduate told him: “A picture can always see nothing, but if a picture sees something, it does not hallucinate. So, you should proceed with the cyst.”

Today we know an AI machine can hallucinate. But in July or August 1968, there was no AI machine. X-ray machines did not hallucinate, though they could be blind.

But in our field of cultural and spiritual archaeology, anthropology, and even theology and spirituality, when using AI machines, agentive or not, generative or not, we must keep in mind that “nothing” does not prove there is nothing, and it can hallucinate something where there is nothing at all, and it is better to double up the test, the procedure.

AI applied to the 7,500 languages in the world is on the point of committing a mass murder of languages, a nearly complete genocide of languages. AI means LLM. LLM means 3 trillion data points. Only 6 to 12 languages can have such an LLM. All other 5,488 languages will have to accept being translated into one of the happy few LLMs by a machine trained for its own and only happy language selected by the masters of the world, hence translating the unhappy language into a happy few language is treacherous, distortive, unfair, and the original unhappy language <will end up dead, absent, except if

1- The world decides to compensate for this loss …

2- … Compensate by teaching the languages and cultures concerned to those who are their natural audience, the natives of these languages.

3- Develop libraries for these languages, working on all possible conservational media.

4- AND OF COURSE A BUDGET THAT HAS TO BE PAID BY THE TECHNOLOGY THAT CREATES THE HAZARD;

 Have a good read.

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Jacques Coulardeau & Md. Merajul Islam

To avoid the Butlerian Jihad will be difficult, but we will have to work hard and fast over the less than ten next years. If Europe wants to do something to avoid being colonized by American AI, it will have to take into account the 7,488 languages that are planned to disappear or become silent by American AI corporations and the US government. Working on prompts will not be enough. The Europeans should start working on a Multilingual, Multidialectal Large Language Model to save the 7,488 languages programmed to become silent.

Artificial Intelligence,  *  Linguistic Genocide,  *  E-Colonialism/Digital Colonialism,  *  Generative AI,  *  LLMs

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AI and Multilingualism Q4: How Can an Outsider Learn to Read the “Architectural Blueprint” of Surviving Within Silence?

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Surviving is a challenge. Survival is not a human right. Dying is definitely a human fate. In other words, we are challenged by this binary choice: human rights versus human fate; survival versus death. And then we are surrounded by graves in what becomes a human cemetery – a pet sematary? And our initial hypothesis being binary, we are trapped with no psychopomp out of it.

But there is a way out of this labyrinth in the form of an absolutely hermetically closed box. The first principle of Buddhism, anicca, everything changes, nothing is forever. Then if everything changes, if nothing is forever, then everything is transient, and everything is emerging from some transient form that existed before the emergence of something new – but is it really new?

New? My foot! Nothing disappears completely into nothing; nothing appears from nothing. Everything transforms, migrates, evolves, in one word changes. The question is then: what is the role of technology, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, or even DeepSeek

 深度求索 , etc.?

And here we are anxious, meaning full of anxiety: LLMs homogenize the few languages they concern. All other languages have to be homogenized by translation into one LLM of one of the very few dominant languages: English, French, Spanish at the top. Statistically imperialistic, probabilistically colonialist.

But change is the very core of humanity. Look at what is new in the landscape, and check what was in this landscape before the change, and is still there, but at times the meaning has changed, the paradigmatic network has changed, the syntactic forest has changed. But all the past is still there, in the memory of the words, in the remembrance of the paradigmatic fishing nets, in the recollection of what was – and yet will be – in the future.

Change is time, and with time, change remains the same, even if the dressing or the chutney of every meal may be different. Nothing new under the sun. Only many things from long before but flavored differently. Viva la Muerte. Le Roi est mort ! Vive le Roi ! The Prime Minister resigned! Long live the King, and GMT forever!

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Jacques Coulardeau & Md. Merajul Islam

There is always a Fish on a Bike that gets lost in transmigration from the global South to the Colonial North. Luckily, all that is going to burn in overheating air-conditioning. A-R versus A-I in Augmented Surreality.

AI and Multilingualism Q4: How Can an Outsider Learn to Read the “Architectural Blueprint” of Surviving Within Silence?

by Jacques Coulardeau & Md. Merajul Islam

2026 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Artificial Intelligence,  *  Global South,  *  Homogenization,  *  E-Colonialism/Digital Colonialism,  *  LLMs

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AI and Multilingualism Q3: How Mohammad Merajul Islam’s Experience

in Bangladesh Shapes the Book’s Perspective

https://medium.com/p/bfbcc19b9339?postPublishedType=initial

No one can know, or even understand, what life is in the Global South, in this case in Bangladesh in the Indian subcontinent in Asia. The author Md. Merajul Islam is discreet and even humble, keeping at a distance not to appear as speaking of his own situation, but rather of that of a young man from what we would call a poor family in any country in the world. Low education. Packed mud walls of their lodgings with corrugated metal on the roof, at times even only two or three layers of palm leaves, and some rats living in these palm leaves. The huts are detached most of the time or semi-detached. They have no electricity, or they have electricity with numerous cuts, particularly at night. No real scholarships to help the kids through their low education. Hardly any prospect of being admitted to a better school, and no future in universities.

As for work, unemployment is sky-rocketing with a vast proportion of men and women, young or not so young, with no jobs at all and reduced to odd jobs with very long hours, low pay, and no guarantee for tomorrow, or for healthcare. Imagine what it means for someone who develops asthma in such a tropical climate. The odd jobs are manual and have to do with all sorts of masonry, or agriculture if there is any possibility. If you want to grow some rice for your family, you have to work the paddy of someone else. You do all the work, you provide all the equipment, including the seeds and the fertilizer, and yet you have to share the harvest 50-50 with the landowner who provided the land. That is feudalism.

And since they are Muslims, they are the constant victims in the West of segregation, rejection, and despise. That is called islamophobia, the Muslim equivalent of antisemitism for the Jews. And they dream of Ishmael, the first son of Abraham from his wife’s Arab slave, rejected later on by Abraham after he got a son from his wife, and Ishmael and his mother were thrown into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Ishmael is the founding figure of Islam.

Read Mohammad Merajul Islam’s text and then the book. We sold the first copy yesterday in France.

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In ,five years it will be too late: a good two thousand languages will have been declared extinct, dead, and buried

AI and Multilingualism Q3: How Mohammad Merajul Islam’s Experience in Bangladesh Shapes the Book’s Perspective

by Jacques Coulardeau & Md. Merajul Islam

2026 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

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AI and Multilingualism Q2: Forced Migration and the Survival of Languages

https://medium.com/p/18a617b38d14?postPublishedType=initial

The debate on Artificial Intelligence is deepening and becoming global. Can the whole of humanity, every single nation, every single culture, every single language benefit from AI? The answer is somewhere in the confrontation of three zones. The USA and its Silicon Valley corporations have invested and built a full infrastructure for it. They are ready to colonize the world with their English LLM.

China has made AI compulsory in the school system starting at six. They invest a lot in the implementation of their AI, digitally simpler, cheaper in energy consumption, and just as efficient. Yet we do not know how it really works, and how they cope with the multidialectal Chinese, and the multilingual China with Chinese (simplified or traditional), Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian, plus smaller isolated languages. The Chinese policy in the field is to encourage the revival of all local, isolated and autonomous cultures and languages. So, how do they do it?

Europe wants to assert itself, but they do not have an alternative. The only possible way to dig some trenches in the US-dominating stance seems to be Advanced Problematization suggested by Edmond Gerard Anna: working on the prompt and elaborating this prompt with primary research before writing it, so that instead of one sentence, you could submit one page’ with contradictory elements and the request to elaborate on differences, and why not choose one or two languages, besides or instead of English.

It is essential to avoid the US colonial approach of AI already implemented and spreading in the world. I can already hear the chant rising from the Global South: Viva La Butlerian Jihad!

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

& Doctorant Mohammad Merajul ISLAM

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It is essential to avoid the US colonial approach of AI already implemented and spreading in the world. I can already hear the chant rising from the Global South: Viva La Butlerian Jihad!

AI and Multilingualism Question 2: Forced Migration and the Survival of Languages

by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

& Doctorant Mohammad Merajul ISLAM

2026 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

4 Pages

History of Slavery,  *  Survival Analysis,  *  Migrations,  *  Ancient civilizations,  *  E-Colonialism/Digital Colonialism

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Artificial Intelligence and the Multilingual World Q1: Between Technological Progress and Digital Colonization

https://medium.com/p/c428f2e65ff5?postPublishedType=initial

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence has transformed the global technological landscape within only a few years. Large Language Models, automated translation systems, predictive algorithms, and generative AI are now becoming central to education, communication, administration, research, and economic production. Yet behind this technological acceleration lies a major question that remains insufficiently explored: can Artificial Intelligence genuinely function in a multilingual world without reinforcing new forms of linguistic domination?

This question becomes particularly urgent for the Global South, where linguistic diversity is not an exception but the normal condition of social life. Thousands of languages continue to exist across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, often within multilingual societies where several languages, dialects, and religious traditions coexist simultaneously. Modern AI systems, however, are largely concentrated on a very small number of dominant languages, supported by massive amounts of digital data. This imbalance raises the possibility that AI may unintentionally create a new form of digital hierarchy with thousands of minority languages reduced to translated extensions of the few dominant ones. The problem is not simply technological. It is also cultural, linguistic, philosophical, and civilizational.

After Jean Coulardeau (1942-2022) and his book, The Computer, The Ultimate Tower of Babel, Éditions La Galipote, 2006, Pope Leo XIV just required the slowing down of Artificial Intelligence to avoid a Tower-of-Babel syndrome, and to remain  human, in his encyclical letter, MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. Yes, indeed, our times are recurrently disquieting.

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

& Doctorant Mohammad Merajul ISLAM

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To survive (forced) migration, silence is best to be protected by living hidden

Question 1:

A Concrete Example of How a Displaced Community

Uses Silence to Preserve Identity

3 Pages

2026, Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Identity (Culture),  *  Social Protection,  *  Migration Studies,  *  Silence Studies,  *  Refugees and Forced Migration Studies

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