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ChatGPT speaks a hundred languages, including Gaelic, Uzbek and Wu Chinese dialect. But both he and rivals, like Google’s Bard, all “think” in their native language: in English. It’s not a detail, given that artificial intelligence promises to change everything. And therefore the gaps between English and other languages risk opening a new abyss of competitiveness between the United States – with the Anglosphere in tow – and the rest of the world.