Babel does not need a translator. It needs a witness.

Nicolas Figay argues that AI generates representations, not shared conceptualizations — and that as semantic artifacts get cheap, the bottleneck moves from building ontologies to agreeing about them. Every step of that holds here. What it leaves open is how plurality is supposed to work in practice, and that is a mechanism question: how does one subject verify another's claim without adopting its model? The answer is not a common vocabulary. It is a signed slice. And the same essay caught us doing the thing it warns about, in our own provisioning surface.