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intercultural training +++ Carmela Antić +++ AI +++ absolutely intercultural 323 +++

You have probably read articles about how AI is going to take over thousands of jobs, so can AI take over intercultural training in particular? That’s a question that newly qualified intercultural trainer, Carmela Antić wondered out loud about on LinkedIn. So I got in touch and asked her to explain more on the podcast.

Welcome to Absolutely Intercultural, show number 323. My name’s Anne Fox and this show is coming to you from Denmark.

Before we explore if AI can take over intercultural training, we need to be clear about what a human intercultural trainer does. Here is how Carmela described her work. Carmela then shares how she uses AI to support her work, but she also tells us when it is not a good idea.

absolutely human
So let’s start the show and begin by hearing what an intercultural trainer actually does, before we stop to consider to what extent that could be taken over by AI. 

absolutely replaceable
Now that we know what an intercultural trainer does, I moved on next to ask Carmela why she had asked on LinkedIn whether AI would be taking over intercultural training. 

Matrix showing cultural values behind the 26 most well-known LLMs.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399707471_Political_Alignment_in_Large_Language_Models_A_Multidimensional_Audit_of_Psychometric_Identity_and_Behavioral_Bias/figures?lo=1

So, as often happens, it seems that we can use AI as a support rather than a replacement and that one of the most important parts of intercultural training is experiencing shifts in emotions and perspectives where AI is very weak.

I really liked the idea of the AI based on knowledge up to 1930. It’s called talkie and is a really fun way to explore attitudes from the past. You’ll find a link to that and also to Carmela on LinkedIn on our website.

So what do you think? Would you benefit from an intercultural training offered by AI? Have you tried the Talkie chat bot?

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Editor: Anne Fox (French/British)

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absolutely intercultural 131 +++ changing perspectives +++ annoying behaviour in class +++ hospitality club +++ freezing in Australia +++

Why do different people have different perspectives? How can the same person have different perspectives on traffic only because one time the person experiences it in the car and the next day on a bicycle? How do our perspectives on events change over time. How big is the cultural influence on our perspective? And how does our perspecive change when we move to another culture?

absolutely changed
All of us have different perspectives on the everyday things that surround us, we watch news on television, hear stories and we think we are perfectly informed about everything. But are we really? Sometimes a trip to another country or a new episode in our lives can change our perspective on the World dramatically.
Take Paul MacAlindin for example. He moved from small-town Scotland to big-town Germany and this move changed his geographical perspective to one which for Continental Europeans seems very normal.

absolutely irritating
Emese Bognar an exchange student from Hungary, vividly illustrates different perspectives and changing perspectives when she told me what irritated her when she attended a lecture and how her perspective on traffic changed, when she did her driving license.

absolutely hospitable
Agnes Dus from Hungary interviewed Adelheid Korpp, who had tried the “hospitality club”, which is a clever system for travelers to get cheap accommodation. The traveler applies for accommodation to a host, contacts the host and asks if they can stay for 1 or 2 nights. This seems to be a pleasant way for travelers to get around and have a cheap bed for the night. However, more importantly, this could be a good way to change your perspective from that of a regular tourist to that of a dear friend invited to the country. But let us listen to Adelheid how this works in detail, because first of all you need to get approved.

absolutely freezing
In our fourth and last category Roman told me about his time in Australia; he spent a semester at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and we now really have to change our perspectives here, because he is telling us that in the middle of the Australian summer you can still feel pretty cold, but listen to him yourself.

Our next show will be coming to you from Anne Fox in Denmark on 01 April

Until then –
Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!

The host of this show is: Dr. Laurent Borgmann
Editor: Dino Nogarole