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The person running the popular language learning app Duolingo isn't afraid of job automation in the age of AI.
In fact, CEO and founder Luis von Ahn is willing to discuss the gloomy prospect of mass layoffs caused by the advent of AI tools while enjoying "bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita," as"Generative AI is accelerating our work by helping us create new content dramatically faster," von Ahn wrote in a Novemberover a meal at Duolingo's Mexican restaurant, designed to have diners practice their Spanish, "we had some hourly contractors who were doing pretty...
Von Ahn's blind trust in the tech is symptomatic of a much greater and worrying trend, with tech leadersto replace human workers with AI. The heated debate surrounding the topic has persisted since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, with Goldman Sachs estimating last year that And as Von Ahn's willing to admit, those layoffs won't be coming for other billionaire founders like him any time soon. Instead, it'll be the far less privileged who are likely the first to be let go.
Whether DuoLingo's all-in on AI will result in tangible benefits to its users remains to be seen. Experts doubt that AI could ever replace human tutors, with the University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education dean Elizabeth Birr Moje tellingthat AI "cannot see if a student is experiencing frustration. It cannot see body language. It cannot see joy."
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