Literary translation is a field where machines have already threatened creative thinking jobs. Already even some respectable publishers in various countries are

Literary translation is a field where machines have already threatened creative thinking jobs. Already even some respectable publishers in various countries are machine-translating novels, giving them a light copyediting (not always a deep editing -- the industry has been cutting back on that for years) by someone who doesn't speak the source language, and selling them to the public. It is not that machine translation can already think so creatively, it is just that the cost savings are so great that human creativity is viewed as an unaffordable luxury and the market tolerates the quality hit.