Human VS. AI Translation Accuracy: A Comparative Study of English-Arabic legal Contract Translation

As the title indicates, this study aims to conduct a comparative analysis to evaluate the accuracy of English-Arabic legal contracts produced by expert human translators and artificial intelligence tools; namely, DeepSeek and Qwen Chat. This study employs a prescriptive, qualitative approach. 10 different legal texts were selected randomly from legal contracts and agreements and translated by both professional human translators and AI tools. The findings of this study indicated that the performance of DeepSeek and Qwen Chat in translating legal contracts into Arabic showed promise in producing fairly acceptable translations for legal texts; however, they are not totally accurate and need to be revised by professional human translators. While expert human translators have shown high-quality translations of legal precise terminology and complicated structures that meets the requirements of Arabic legal standards and Libyan context