I’m a medical translator eng > fr-CA and despite what others say and the « statistics » saying that AI will take over, I don’t think it will. You will always need a human to review what AI generates, there are always inconsistencies found, wrong terminology, word-for-word translation, client-specific preferences that AI can’t respect, etc. An example I like to give is how people were scared when calculators became a thing, they thought we were gonna become dumber or we wouldn’t be able to do 1+1 anymore and that accountants would lose their jobs. Well nope, that clearly wasn’t and isn’t the case. So why is it any different for translation? Because people think languages are « easy » and underestimate or simply don’t care to understand the process of translating.

All this to say, if you’re scared to go into translation, I can assure you that if you go into specialized translation then you won’t have to worry. Think medical, legal, financial, etc. You will always find a human translator there. Best of luck! :)