What will happen to Bengali language and literature as artificial intelligence increasingly influences how people write, read, learn, translate, communicate, and preserve cultural memory?

Bengali Language and Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Literature, Cultural Identity, and Digital Sovereignty explores this urgent question from literary, linguistic, cultural, educational, and technological perspectives.

Prof. Dr. Milton Biswas traces the journey of Bengali knowledge from manuscripts and print culture to digital archives, machine learning, and generative AI. Written for scholars, students, teachers, writers, researchers, technologists, and general readers, the book explains artificial intelligence in accessible language while examining whether Bengali is adequately prepared for the emerging AI-driven world.

The book investigates the linguistic structure of Bengali and the challenges it presents for natural language processing, translation, speech recognition, text generation, literary analysis, and digital preservation. It also considers the possibilities of AI-assisted research, creative writing, education, archival recovery, and wider global access to Bengali literary heritage.

At the same time, the book addresses serious concerns surrounding algorithmic bias, linguistic inequality, cultural misrepresentation, data ownership, intellectual property, misinformation, and the marginalization of regional dialects and minority voices. It argues that Bengali must not remain merely a consumer language within global technological systems. It must develop the datasets, digital infrastructure, scholarly participation, ethical standards, and institutional capacity necessary to shape its own technological future.

Combining literary scholarship with contemporary debates about artificial intelligence, this book presents a human-centered vision in which technology supports creativity without replacing human imagination, expands knowledge without distorting cultural memory, and strengthens Bengali identity without isolating it from the wider world.

This is both a critical study and a call to action: Bengali language and literature must enter the age of artificial intelligence with dignity, intellectual independence, cultural confidence, and digital sovereignty.