Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn is having major regrets after widely bragging about replacing his human staffers with AI. Earlier this year, von Ahn boasted that the language learning app company would “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle.” At the time, the CEO said that “we can’t wait until the technology is 100 percent perfect,” announcing that “we’d rather move with urgency and take occasional small hits on quality than move slowly and miss the moment.” His enthusiasm for
