Interestingly, although Sujato has a horse in the race since he has created so many Sutta translations, and also has the biggest Buddhist website and forum on the internet, and many other related projects and so forth, and although AI will definitely be used in the future by EBT proponents for text-critical analysis of Buddhist texts as its ability to do so improves over time (as well as to generate outputs of what might be “closer to original versions” when fed Suttas, Āgamas, as well as books about EBTs, which will, no doubt, be highly revered [with increaseing reverence over time] by many moderns), this attitude might actually help to preserve the Sāsana for longer, in a strange twist, seeing that it only took 128 years since Rhys Davids did his first scholarly translation of a Pali text into English before another modern EBT monk published his 2006 paper claiming that the Buddha probably didn’t even claim to possess Omniscience.
Renaldo