Until very recently, I think it's fair to say, literary translation has kind of been in denial," said moderator Duncan Large, executive director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, in introducing the "AI and Literary Translation" panel at this year's London Book Fair on March 13. "Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example, in the form of online dictionaries, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine translation or even computer-assisted translation tools can have any significant role to play in literary translation."