[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":905},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-list-en":3},[4,282,475],{"id":5,"title":6,"author":7,"body":8,"date":262,"description":17,"excerpt":263,"extension":264,"heroImage":265,"heroImageAlt":266,"heroOpacity":267,"image":265,"imageAlt":266,"meta":268,"navigation":269,"path":270,"readingTime":271,"seo":272,"slug":273,"stem":274,"tags":275,"__hash__":281},"blog/blog/capitale-semantico-rsai/en.md","Semantic Capital and RSAI: Why Translating Isn't Enough — You Need to Understand","Converso",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":250},"minimark",[11,18,21,28,35,37,42,54,57,59,63,69,76,87,90,92,96,99,106,113,120,122,126,129,132,139,141,145,151,154,157,160,162,166,169,172,174,178,185,188,195,198,200,204,207,210,213,230,233,235],[12,13,14],"p",{},[15,16,17],"strong",{},"Meaning doesn't translate itself",[19,20],"hr",{},[12,22,23,24,27],{},"Luciano Floridi coined an expression that deserves a place in the vocabulary of anyone working in multilingual communication: ",[15,25,26],{},"semantic capital",". It's not an abstract concept from a philosophy conference. It's the most precise lens we have today to explain why artificial intelligence, on its own, can never fully replace the human interpreter — and why, at the same time, rejecting it would be a mistake.",[12,29,30,31,34],{},"The parallel with Converso®'s RSAI manifesto is striking. Not because one copied the other, but because they start from the same insight: ",[15,32,33],{},"technology is immensely powerful when it operates within a framework of meaning governed by humans",". Without that framework, it produces noise. With it, it amplifies the signal.",[19,36],{},[38,39,41],"h2",{"id":40},"what-is-semantic-capital","What is semantic capital",[12,43,44,45,49,50,53],{},"Floridi defines semantic capital as the set of experiences, knowledge, cultural references, and interpretive abilities that each of us accumulates through living. It's not culture in the academic sense. It's something broader: it includes the song you listened to at fifteen, the memory of a trip, the way your mother tongue structures thought. It's everything that allows you not just to ",[46,47,48],"em",{},"know",", but to ",[46,51,52],{},"make sense"," of what you know.",[12,55,56],{},"Floridi's thesis is clear: machines don't possess semantic capital. They can process content, but they don't experience it. They can translate words, but they lack the \"grain of sand\" — the pain, the limitation, the embodied experience — that transforms information into meaning. In an era where AI produces texts, images, and translations at industrial speed, the truly scarce resource is no longer information. It's understanding.",[19,58],{},[38,60,62],{"id":61},"the-rsai-manifesto-says-the-same-thing-with-cables-in-hand","The RSAI manifesto says the same thing — with cables in hand",[12,64,65,66],{},"Converso®'s RSAI manifesto opens with a sentence that sounds like it came from an essay on the philosophy of information: ",[46,67,68],{},"\"The world of interpretation isn't simply changing: it's splitting in two.\"",[12,70,71,72,75],{},"That \"splitting\" is exactly the Floridian distinction between data and meaning, between syntax and semantics. Converso® doesn't say AI is the future, nor that the human interpreter is a relic of the past. It says that ",[15,73,74],{},"two tools exist for two different purposes"," — and that the choice between them isn't technological, but semantic.",[12,77,78,79,82,83,86],{},"When a CEO addresses ten thousand employees scattered around the world to announce a restructuring, ",[46,80,81],{},"what"," is said matters less than ",[46,84,85],{},"how"," it's perceived. The tone, the pause, the unintentional irony, the cultural reference that works in Italian but not in Japanese — all of this is semantic capital. And it's precisely what a human interpreter can manage and what a neural engine, however sophisticated, cannot grasp.",[12,88,89],{},"But when a speaker presents technical data at an industry conference, with structured slides and predictable terminology, the required semantic capital is lower. The information is more \"syntactic,\" more procedural. Here, AI isn't just sufficient: it's often preferable, because it scales across dozens of languages simultaneously, cuts costs, and democratises access.",[19,91],{},[38,93,95],{"id":94},"human-governance-as-the-care-of-meaning","Human governance as the care of meaning",[12,97,98],{},"Floridi insists on a crucial point: semantic capital doesn't preserve itself. It must be cared for, cultivated, transmitted. If we delegate it entirely to machines, it erodes. If we ignore it in the name of efficiency, we impoverish ourselves.",[12,100,101,102,105],{},"Converso® has translated this philosophical insight into a concrete operational model: ",[15,103,104],{},"human governance",". At every RSAI event, a Converso® technician supervises the translation flow in real time. This isn't decoration. It's the guardian of the event's semantic capital. They monitor quality, intervene when the AI struggles — heavy accents, overlapping voices, irony — and can activate a manual switch to a human interpreter seamlessly for the audience.",[12,107,108,109,112],{},"It's the operational equivalent of what Floridi calls ",[46,110,111],{},"curation",": not producing more content, but ensuring that the content produced makes sense. Not simply adding languages, but guaranteeing that each added language conveys the right meaning.",[12,114,115,116,119],{},"Here, a distinction the market still struggles to make opens up. Offering \"60 languages included\" as if it were an all-you-can-eat package isn't democratisation: it's semantic inflation. If the engine performs well on English and French but produces mediocre results on Romanian or Thai, those languages aren't a service — they're decoration. The number of available languages is a technical data point. The number of ",[46,117,118],{},"reliable"," languages is a semantic data point. And the difference between the two is made only by those who take responsibility for verifying, language by language, that the meaning arrives.",[19,121],{},[38,123,125],{"id":124},"the-grain-of-sand-is-the-competitive-advantage","The \"grain of sand\" is the competitive advantage",[12,127,128],{},"Floridi uses a powerful image: the oyster's pearl. Without the grain of sand — the irritation, the limitation, the imperfection — there's nothing around which to build. Semantic capital is born from the friction between lived experience and the world. Machines, which feel no friction, don't produce pearls. They produce data.",[12,130,131],{},"In the world of multilingual events, the \"grain of sand\" is everything that makes each event unique: the participants' culture, the political context, the speaker's emotional register, the unspoken that weighs more than the spoken. The human interpreter works with these grains every day. AI ignores them — not out of ill will, but by architecture.",[12,133,134,135,138],{},"This is why the RSAI manifesto doesn't propose a replacement. It proposes a ",[15,136,137],{},"conscious coexistence",". The main languages, where meaning is densest and nuances critical, entrusted to professional interpreters. The secondary languages, informational sessions, large volumes — to AI. The decision isn't per event, but per language. It isn't economic: it's semantic.",[19,140],{},[38,142,144],{"id":143},"a-new-criterion-for-choosing","A new criterion for choosing",[12,146,147,148],{},"If semantic capital is the ability to make sense of the world, then the question every event organiser should ask isn't \"AI or human?\" but: ",[15,149,150],{},"how much semantic density does my content have?",[12,152,153],{},"A debate between diplomats on the energy crisis? Extremely high semantic density. You need a human interpreter — preferably senior, with sector experience.",[12,155,156],{},"A technical webinar on regulatory updates with 200 slides? Low semantic density. AI excels, costs less, and allows coverage of languages that would be economically unsustainable with human interpreters.",[12,158,159],{},"A hybrid event with high-impact plenary sessions and parallel technical workshops? Hybrid mode. Semantic capital is distributed differently across different rooms, and the technological configuration must follow it.",[19,161],{},[38,163,165],{"id":164},"the-virtuous-paradox","The virtuous paradox",[12,167,168],{},"There's a paradox Floridi would probably appreciate: it's precisely the arrival of AI that makes the human interpreter's value more visible. Before machines could translate, it was harder to see where linguistic \"labour\" ended and where the interpretive, cultural, human contribution began. Today that boundary is sharp.",[12,170,171],{},"AI shows us, by contrast, what semantic capital is. And this isn't a reason to fear it. It's a reason to integrate it — provided we have the clarity to understand where meaning requires a human mind and where a neural engine is more than sufficient.",[19,173],{},[38,175,177],{"id":176},"we-dont-sell-magic-nor-nostalgia","We don't sell magic, nor nostalgia",[12,179,180,181,184],{},"The tagline of the RSAI manifesto — ",[46,182,183],{},"\"We're not here to sell magic or nostalgia\""," — is perhaps the most effective summary of Floridi's thinking applied to practice.",[12,186,187],{},"Those who sell \"magic\" promise that AI will solve everything, erasing the need for human semantic capital. Those who sell \"nostalgia\" reject AI wholesale, clinging to a world where the only possible translation passed through a booth and two headsets.",[12,189,190,191,194],{},"Converso®'s position — and, in our view, the philosophically soundest one — is the third way: ",[15,192,193],{},"use technology as an amplifier of human meaning, never as its substitute",". Build systems where the AI engine and the human interpreter coexist, each in the context where their contribution has the most value. And always guard that boundary with active governance, because meaning cannot be delegated.",[12,196,197],{},"Floridi would say it's a question of semantic responsibility. We, more simply, call it doing our job well.",[19,199],{},[38,201,203],{"id":202},"the-semantic-capital-of-those-who-serve-you","The semantic capital of those who serve you",[12,205,206],{},"There's one final step worth taking: applying Floridi's concept not just to the event, but to those who manage it.",[12,208,209],{},"A company that deals with multilingual communication possesses — or doesn't possess — its own semantic capital. We're not talking about years of activity on a brochure or a reassuring logo. We're talking about something deeper: the embodied knowledge that accumulates only by doing things, getting them wrong, correcting them, and redoing them in ever-different contexts.",[12,211,212],{},"Converso® started in 2001 with radio frequencies when the market was using infrared. It invented polycarbonate booths when everyone was building in wood. It brought simultaneous interpretation to smartphones in 2014, remote interpreting in 2017, the physical RSI Hub in 2019 — while the rest of the industry was going all-cloud. It integrated AI in 2025, but starting from real infrastructure, not from a slide. This journey isn't a CV: it's semantic capital. It's knowing that ducking exists, that n-1 isn't optional, that a backup 4G modem in a trolley can save a two-thousand-person event. It's having touched the connectors before writing the code.",[12,214,215,216,219,220,222,223,226,227,229],{},"When you choose a partner for your multilingual events, you're choosing someone else's semantic capital. You're deciding who to entrust with the meaning — not just the words — of what you want to communicate. A provider with only technology will give you only syntax: translated data, routed streams, listed languages. A provider with semantic capital too will give you something more: the ability to understand ",[46,217,218],{},"when"," that technology is needed and ",[46,221,218],{}," a human is needed, ",[46,224,225],{},"where"," a neural engine suffices and ",[46,228,225],{}," you're risking the meaning.",[12,231,232],{},"It's the difference between someone who offers you sixty languages as if they were peanuts and someone who tells you: these eight work well for your context, these three we'll cover with interpreters, and these two we'd advise against because the engine isn't mature enough yet. The first is a feature list. The second is semantic capital at work.",[19,234],{},[12,236,237,240],{},[46,238,239],{},"Converso® is a registered trademark of ABB S.r.l. — System Integrator for multilingual events since 2001.",[46,241,242,243],{},"To learn more about the RSAI manifesto: ",[244,245,249],"a",{"href":246,"rel":247},"https://converso.cloud/rsai",[248],"nofollow","converso.cloud/rsai",{"title":251,"searchDepth":252,"depth":252,"links":253},"",2,[254,255,256,257,258,259,260,261],{"id":40,"depth":252,"text":41},{"id":61,"depth":252,"text":62},{"id":94,"depth":252,"text":95},{"id":124,"depth":252,"text":125},{"id":143,"depth":252,"text":144},{"id":164,"depth":252,"text":165},{"id":176,"depth":252,"text":177},{"id":202,"depth":252,"text":203},"2026-04-15",null,"md","/images/blog/capitale-semantico-rsai/hero.png","Abstract representation of semantic capital: connections between human language and artificial intelligence","dark",{},true,"/blog/capitale-semantico-rsai/en","11-14 min",{"title":6,"description":17},"capitale-semantico-rsai","blog/capitale-semantico-rsai/en",[276,277,278,279,280],"AI","RSAI","Interpretation","Semantic Capital","Floridi","g8NQ9n-0pjesPQQnPCSKPBsKS3jsEV5eTPAvHclHjhY",{"id":283,"title":284,"author":7,"body":285,"date":463,"description":291,"excerpt":263,"extension":264,"heroImage":464,"heroImageAlt":465,"heroOpacity":267,"image":464,"imageAlt":465,"meta":466,"navigation":269,"path":467,"readingTime":468,"seo":469,"slug":470,"stem":471,"tags":472,"__hash__":474},"blog/blog/grande-confusione-sotto-il-cielo-rsai/en.md","Great Confusion Under the Sky: The Situation Is Excellent",{"type":9,"value":286,"toc":455},[287,292,294,297,300,304,307,310,313,316,320,323,326,332,338,344,348,351,354,360,366,372,376,379,382,404,407,411,414,417,420,423,426,430,433,436,439,442,445,448,450],[12,288,289],{},[46,290,291],{},"Artificial intelligence in simultaneous interpretation — between promises, fears, and the only thing that truly matters: making it work.",[19,293],{},[12,295,296],{},"Mao Zedong used this phrase to describe moments when apparent chaos conceals an extraordinary opportunity. Whether you take it as a revolutionary maxim or a cynical proverb, it perfectly captures the state of simultaneous interpretation in 2026.",[12,298,299],{},"Never so much confusion. Never so much opportunity.",[38,301,303],{"id":302},"the-sky-of-interpretation-today","The Sky of Interpretation, Today",[12,305,306],{},"On one side, the prophets of doom: AI will replace interpreters, booths will end up in landfills, the profession is dead. On the other, the purists of tradition: AI doesn't understand irony, can't grasp nuance, can never replace a human being. In between, a market that doesn't quite know what to buy — and an army of startups selling \"real-time AI translation\" as if it were a solved problem.",[12,308,309],{},"Spoiler: it isn't. Not yet. And perhaps it shouldn't be.",[12,311,312],{},"The confusion stems from a fundamental misunderstanding: treating artificial intelligence and human interpretation as alternatives. As if one must win and the other disappear. As if the choice were binary.",[12,314,315],{},"It isn't.",[38,317,319],{"id":318},"two-tools-for-two-purposes","Two Tools for Two Purposes",[12,321,322],{},"At Converso®, we've been working with conference interpreters since 2001. We've built booths, pulled cables, managed radio frequencies when infrared was the standard. In 2014, we brought simultaneous interpretation to smartphones. In 2017, we started connecting interpreters remotely, and in 2019 we built a physical RSI Hub in Milan — 14 soundproofed booths, 3 control rooms, UPS and generator — while everyone else was going to the cloud.",[12,324,325],{},"When we launched RSAI in 2025, our AI interpretation system with human governance, we didn't do it to replace what we had built. We did it because we understood something simple: there are contexts where AI is the right tool, and contexts where it isn't. The intelligent decision isn't choosing a side — it's choosing for each language, each session, each need.",[12,327,328,331],{},[15,329,330],{},"Choose AI when"," the content is structured and informational, volumes are massive, the budget is tight, subtitles are needed for everyone, there are many languages and some have few listeners.",[12,333,334,337],{},[15,335,336],{},"Choose a human interpreter when"," the context is diplomatic, irony matters, the negotiation is critical, the emotion of the voice is part of the message, cultural nuances can make the difference between a deal and an incident.",[12,339,340,343],{},[15,341,342],{},"Choose both when"," — and this happens more often than you'd think — the main languages require the depth of an interpreter while secondary languages can be covered by AI, without the audience noticing any difference in the experience.",[38,345,347],{"id":346},"the-problem-with-ai-translation","The Problem with \"AI Translation\"",[12,349,350],{},"In the great confusion under the sky, the term \"AI translation\" has become an empty container. Anything gets stuffed into it: from a browser's automatic translator to enterprise systems with real-time human supervision. The result is that the client doesn't know what they're buying, and the provider often doesn't know what they're selling.",[12,352,353],{},"Here's what separates a serious system from an impressive demo:",[12,355,356,359],{},[15,357,358],{},"The chain is long."," An AI interpretation engine is not a single algorithm. It's a pipeline: speech recognition, neural translation, speech synthesis. Every link depends on the quality of the preceding one. A poor microphone, a strong accent, a noisy room: the first link degrades and everything else follows.",[12,361,362,365],{},[15,363,364],{},"Context changes everything."," A generic AI engine translates \"board\" as a wooden plank. An engine trained with your event's materials knows that in that context it means \"board of directors.\" Without Context Training — terminology preparation specific to each event — output quality is a lottery.",[12,367,368,371],{},[15,369,370],{},"Monitoring is not optional."," Anyone who tells you to turn on an AI engine and walk away has never managed a live event. AI makes mistakes. Sometimes subtle, sometimes glaring. The difference is having a technician who monitors the stream in real time and intervenes — or switches to a human interpreter — when quality drops below threshold.",[38,373,375],{"id":374},"rsai-how-it-actually-works","RSAI: How It Actually Works",[12,377,378],{},"RSAI is Converso®'s proprietary system that integrates AI into simultaneous interpretation. It's not a self-service platform. It's not a plugin. It's a managed service, with a human operator supervising every session.",[12,380,381],{},"In practice:",[383,384,385,392,398],"ul",{},[386,387,388,391],"li",{},[15,389,390],{},"Before the event:"," the engine is trained with conference materials — glossaries, abstracts, speaker names, industry terminology. Context Training raises accuracy from the very first word.",[386,393,394,397],{},[15,395,396],{},"During the event:"," AI translates in real time. A Converso® technician monitors the output quality and can intervene at any moment. In hybrid setups, the switch from AI to human interpreter is seamless for the audience.",[386,399,400,403],{},[15,401,402],{},"For the audience:"," no difference in the experience. Same WebApp, same QR code, same audio quality — whether there's an interpreter or an AI engine behind the scenes.",[12,405,406],{},"In February 2026, at BIT in Rho Fiera, we managed 6 conference rooms in parallel with 12 simultaneous AI outputs, for 3 days. The rooms were open space inside exhibition halls — the worst possible scenario for audio. The system worked without interruptions. But it worked because it was prepared, governed, and supervised. Not because AI is magic.",[38,408,410],{"id":409},"honesty-as-positioning","Honesty as Positioning",[12,412,413],{},"In a market where everyone promises everything, the most counterintuitive thing we can do is be honest about what AI cannot do.",[12,415,416],{},"It doesn't handle debates with overlapping voices well. It struggles with strong accents. It doesn't catch irony, sarcasm, the unsaid. It lacks the cultural instinct of an interpreter who has worked the same language pair for twenty years.",[12,418,419],{},"And we say this — we, who sell it.",[12,421,422],{},"We say it because a client who chooses the right tool for the right context is a satisfied client — and one who comes back. A client who was sold the moon and ends up with a rock in their stomach is a lost client, and negative word of mouth.",[12,424,425],{},"Our RSAI manifesto was born here: from the conviction that coexistence is smarter than replacement. That progress isn't about eliminating what works, but adding what was missing.",[38,427,429],{"id":428},"the-situation-is-excellent","The Situation Is Excellent",[12,431,432],{},"Let's return to Mao. \"Great confusion under the sky: the situation is excellent.\"",[12,434,435],{},"The confusion is real. But for those who have clarity — about what works, what doesn't, and above all what the client actually needs — this confusion is an enormous competitive advantage.",[12,437,438],{},"Because while the market splits between uncritical enthusiasts and paralyzed skeptics, there's room for those who do the hardest thing: tell the truth, offer both solutions, and let the context decide.",[12,440,441],{},"We don't sell what's fashionable. We sell what you need.",[12,443,444],{},"Sometimes it's an interpreter with twenty years of experience.\nSometimes it's an AI engine trained on your materials.\nOften it's both.",[12,446,447],{},"And the confusion? Leave it to the competitors.",[19,449],{},[12,451,452],{},[46,453,454],{},"Converso® is a registered trademark of ABB S.r.l. — Innovators by Tradition since 2001.",{"title":251,"searchDepth":252,"depth":252,"links":456},[457,458,459,460,461,462],{"id":302,"depth":252,"text":303},{"id":318,"depth":252,"text":319},{"id":346,"depth":252,"text":347},{"id":374,"depth":252,"text":375},{"id":409,"depth":252,"text":410},{"id":428,"depth":252,"text":429},"2026-04-10","/images/blog/grande-confusione-sotto-il-cielo-rsai/hero.png","Illuminated interpretation booth under a stormy sky with multilingual sound waves",{},"/blog/grande-confusione-sotto-il-cielo-rsai/en","5-7 min",{"title":284,"description":291},"grande-confusione-sotto-il-cielo-rsai","blog/grande-confusione-sotto-il-cielo-rsai/en",[276,277,278,473],"Opinion","8JC2B1l4LlycrN5ZejNHmJua2OHcwEyhxtckf47Jobc",{"id":476,"title":477,"author":7,"body":478,"date":891,"description":484,"excerpt":263,"extension":264,"heroImage":892,"heroImageAlt":893,"heroOpacity":267,"image":892,"imageAlt":893,"meta":894,"navigation":269,"path":895,"readingTime":896,"seo":897,"slug":898,"stem":899,"tags":900,"__hash__":904},"blog/blog/i-vostri-dati-sono-al-sicuro/en.md","Your Data Is Safe. But Maybe Not from Who You Think.",{"type":9,"value":479,"toc":873},[480,485,487,490,495,498,502,505,508,511,514,518,521,524,527,530,544,548,551,557,560,566,569,573,576,579,582,585,589,591,596,599,607,609,613,616,624,626,630,633,641,643,647,650,659,661,665,668,676,678,682,685,702,705,708,712,715,718,724,730,736,742,746,749,838,841,845,848,851,854,856,860,862],[12,481,482],{},[46,483,484],{},"Everyone asks us: \"Does the AI use our data for training?\" The answer is no. But the real risk to your event's confidentiality is somewhere nobody is looking.",[19,486],{},[12,488,489],{},"For the past few months, every time we present RSAI — our simultaneous interpretation system powered by artificial intelligence — the question comes up. Sometimes whispered, sometimes stated bluntly, sometimes delivered by the company's legal department in a three-page email:",[12,491,492],{},[46,493,494],{},"\"Is what's said during our event used to train your AI?\"",[12,496,497],{},"The question is legitimate. The answer is no. But before we explain why, we want to tell you something.",[38,499,501],{"id":500},"twenty-five-years-of-trust-then-one-word","Twenty-Five Years of Trust, Then One Word",[12,503,504],{},"We've been managing the audio for your events since 2001. Remotely since 2017. Every word spoken at your conferences, assemblies, and European works councils passes through our servers, our app, our control rooms. In 25 years, no one ever asked us: \"Do you record everything?\"",[12,506,507],{},"Because trust was there. And it still is.",[12,509,510],{},"Then we added artificial intelligence to the service — largely at the request of the very clients who are now asking for guarantees. Because we deeply believe in the value of human interpreters, but we can't ignore the needs of a market that's evolving. And the question became sudden and urgent. Yet the infrastructure is the same. The contractual guarantees are the same. In fact, they're more detailed than ever: we have an AI Annex in our General Terms & Conditions that specifies exactly how we handle data.",[12,512,513],{},"The fear doesn't come from our service. It comes from the confusion between the AI everyone uses every day — free chatbots, online translators, voice assistants — and the enterprise AI we use. They are two different worlds. With different rules.",[38,515,517],{"id":516},"the-problem-isnt-free-vs-paid","The Problem Isn't Free vs. Paid",[12,519,520],{},"This is the most important thing in this entire article, and you don't need technical jargon to understand it.",[12,522,523],{},"When you use a chatbot or an online translator — even a paid one — the content you enter might be used to train the model. In many consumer services, this happens by default: you need to dig into the settings, find the option, and switch it off. Who does that? Almost nobody. And even those who do — how do you verify it actually works?",[12,525,526],{},"The point isn't whether you pay for the service or not. The point is whether a contract guarantees what happens to your data — and whether non-training is the baseline rule, not an option buried in a submenu.",[12,528,529],{},"When we use AI for your event, it's different. We use enterprise APIs from international technology providers — professional interfaces with specific contracts. In these APIs, non-training is the default behaviour: there's nothing to deactivate. It's the rule, not the exception.",[531,532,533,539],"blockquote",{},[12,534,535,538],{},[15,536,537],{},"If you want a picture:"," it's like the difference between talking on speakerphone on a train — where the person next to you is hearing your financial data along with their podcast — and talking in a private meeting room, door closed, nobody listening.",[12,540,541],{},[46,542,543],{},"The content is the same. The protection isn't.",[38,545,547],{"id":546},"how-it-actually-works-no-jargon-we-promise","How It Actually Works (No Jargon, We Promise)",[12,549,550],{},"Here's what really happens when we use AI for your event:",[12,552,553,556],{},[15,554,555],{},"Converso does not develop artificial intelligence."," We don't have our own model to train. Our system is an architecture that orchestrates, in real time, AI services from leading international technology providers. Each one specialises in their own area: speech recognition, translation, voice synthesis.",[12,558,559],{},"Since there is no \"Converso model\" to feed, we have no interest — neither technical nor economic — in collecting, storing, or reusing the contents of your events.",[12,561,562,565],{},[15,563,564],{},"Data passes through the system; it doesn't stay inside."," Audio is processed in real time and is not retained beyond the delivery of the service. Intermediate transcriptions only serve the processing in progress and are deleted when the event ends. Translated audio and subtitles are streamed to participants and are not archived.",[12,567,568],{},"Our value doesn't lie in your data. It lies in making all of this work — in real time, with a technician monitoring, and with a backup plan if something goes wrong.",[38,570,572],{"id":571},"the-seatbelt-and-the-fraying-anchor","The Seatbelt and the Fraying Anchor",[12,574,575],{},"So far, so clear: you asked us for guarantees, we gave them to you, and they're solid. But here's the part of the article you might not expect.",[12,577,578],{},"Protecting an event's data is like a seatbelt: buckling up isn't enough. Every anchor point needs to hold. If you ask your interpretation provider for guarantees — and you're right to — but nobody checks what tools the other people handling the event's content use every day, you have a seatbelt buckled to an anchor that might not be as solid as you think.",[12,580,581],{},"The feeling of security is there. The actual security? Maybe not.",[12,583,584],{},"Let us explain with a few scenarios. These aren't proven facts — they're plausible situations that, after 25 years in this industry, we know are far more common than anyone thinks.",[38,586,588],{"id":587},"five-scenarios-nobody-is-thinking-about","Five Scenarios Nobody Is Thinking About",[19,590],{},[592,593,595],"h3",{"id":594},"_1-a-manager-preparing-a-presentation","1. A manager preparing a presentation",[12,597,598],{},"An executive needs to present at an international event. Short on time, they upload the slides to a chatbot to translate and improve them. The slides contain unpublished financial data, strategies, patent information.",[531,600,601],{},[12,602,603,604],{},"That chatbot operates under consumer policies: content is used for training. ",[15,605,606],{},"It's not recoverable. It's not deletable.",[19,608],{},[592,610,612],{"id":611},"_2-a-design-agency-laying-out-materials","2. A design agency laying out materials",[12,614,615],{},"A graphic designer receives confidential content for the event's visual materials. They use AI features built into their editing software — \"improve text\", auto-translate — without checking where that data goes.",[531,617,618],{},[12,619,620,621],{},"Many creative tools with integrated AI operate in consumer mode and send content to third-party servers. ",[15,622,623],{},"The designer probably doesn't know. The client doesn't either.",[19,625],{},[592,627,629],{"id":628},"_3-an-interpreter-preparing-terminology","3. An interpreter preparing terminology",[12,631,632],{},"A professional, even under NDA, receives confidential preparatory documents. To extract a glossary or understand technical terminology, they use a chatbot.",[531,634,635],{},[12,636,637,638],{},"The confidential documents end up in a consumer service that uses them for training. The interpreter is acting in good faith. ",[15,639,640],{},"The NDA offers no retroactive protection: the data has already been ingested.",[19,642],{},[592,644,646],{"id":645},"_4-a-consultant-transcribing-recordings","4. A consultant transcribing recordings",[12,648,649],{},"After the event, someone needs to write a report. They upload the full recordings to a free or low-cost AI transcription service.",[531,651,652],{},[12,653,654,655,658],{},"Several of these services declare they use recordings to train their models — after \"de-identification\" that ",[15,656,657],{},"the client cannot verify"," and that doesn't eliminate the informational content anyway.",[19,660],{},[592,662,664],{"id":663},"_5-an-assistant-translating-the-meeting-notice","5. An assistant translating the meeting notice",[12,666,667],{},"They need to send the notice for a Board meeting or European Works Council in multiple languages. They copy the text — with agendas, names, sensitive topics — into an online translator.",[531,669,670],{},[12,671,672,673],{},"No guarantee of non-retention. ",[15,674,675],{},"The Board agenda becomes material processed by a consumer service.",[19,677],{},[38,679,681],{"id":680},"the-pattern-is-always-the-same","The Pattern Is Always the Same",[12,683,684],{},"The mechanism is identical in all five scenarios:",[686,687,688,691,694,697],"ol",{},[386,689,690],{},"A person acting in good faith uses a consumer AI service for an operational task",[386,692,693],{},"The service operates under consumer policies: data is used for training by default",[386,695,696],{},"Nobody checks, nobody notices",[386,698,699],{},[15,700,701],{},"The risk is invisible, silent, and irreversible",[12,703,704],{},"None of these scenarios involve malice or negligence. They simply require that the distinction between consumer AI and enterprise AI — which is the heart of the matter — remains unknown to the vast majority of people.",[12,706,707],{},"And that creates a blind spot.",[38,709,711],{"id":710},"the-right-questions-to-ask-of-everyone","The Right Questions to Ask (Of Everyone)",[12,713,714],{},"Many of the organisations we work with already have solid structures in place: security policies, certifications, NDAs with every supplier. Some ask us to sign very detailed compliance documents — and rightly so.",[12,716,717],{},"But the distinction between consumer AI and enterprise AI is still poorly understood, even within highly structured organisations. It's not a matter of competence: the topic is new and changing at lightning speed. That's why we think it's useful to share a few key questions.",[12,719,720,723],{},[15,721,722],{},"The point isn't free vs. paid."," Even a paid service can use your data for training if the settings allow it. The right question isn't \"how much does it cost?\" but \"what happens to my data? And where is that written in the contract?\"",[12,725,726,729],{},[15,727,728],{},"AI policies should cover everyone who touches the content."," If your organisation already has data security policies, it's worth checking whether they also cover the use of AI tools by suppliers, consultants, and external collaborators.",[12,731,732,735],{},[15,733,734],{},"Training is the best protection."," Most risks arise from unawareness, not from ill intent. Just explain the difference — service with contractual guarantees vs. consumer service without guarantees — and people get it.",[12,737,738,741],{},[15,739,740],{},"One simple question that changes everything."," Not just \"Are my data safe with you?\" but \"What tools do you use to work on our content?\" It's a question few people ask, and it matters across the entire supply chain.",[38,743,745],{"id":744},"our-guarantees-in-brief","Our Guarantees, in Brief",[12,747,748],{},"For clarity, here is what we guarantee:",[750,751,752,764],"table",{},[753,754,755],"thead",{},[756,757,758,761],"tr",{},[759,760],"th",{},[759,762,763],{},"Guarantee",[765,766,767,780,791,802,813,827],"tbody",{},[756,768,769,773],{},[770,771,772],"td",{},"✓",[770,774,775,776,779],{},"Your event's content is ",[15,777,778],{},"not used"," to train any AI model",[756,781,782,784],{},[770,783,772],{},[770,785,786,787,790],{},"Audio data is processed in real time and ",[15,788,789],{},"not retained"," beyond the delivery of the service",[756,792,793,795],{},[770,794,772],{},[770,796,797,798,801],{},"Intermediate transcriptions are ",[15,799,800],{},"deleted"," at the end of the event",[756,803,804,806],{},[770,805,772],{},[770,807,808,809,812],{},"Technology providers ",[15,810,811],{},"do not use"," enterprise API data for model training",[756,814,815,817],{},[770,816,772],{},[770,818,819,820,823,824],{},"Contractual guarantees formalised in the ",[15,821,822],{},"AI Annex"," and ",[15,825,826],{},"General Terms & Conditions",[756,828,829,831],{},[770,830,772],{},[770,832,833,834,837],{},"Full ",[15,835,836],{},"GDPR compliance"," — processing on European infrastructure",[12,839,840],{},"If you want to go deeper, we have a detailed technical document that explains everything. Ask your account manager or get in touch.",[38,842,844],{"id":843},"in-conclusion","In Conclusion",[12,846,847],{},"You asked the right question. And the answer is: with us, your data is safe.",[12,849,850],{},"But real protection isn't a single anchor. It's a complete seatbelt where every point holds. And it might be worth checking the other ones too.",[12,852,853],{},"If you'd like help understanding how to protect your event's content across the board — not just during interpretation, but throughout the entire supply chain — we're here. It's what we've been doing for 25 years: not just translating, but taking care of the entire event.",[19,855],{},[12,857,858],{},[46,859,454],{},[19,861],{},[12,863,864],{},[865,866,867,868,872],"small",{},"This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or a binding contractual statement. For binding guarantees, please refer to our General Terms & Conditions and the AI Annex. 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