Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: ‘I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do’ 

• A week after the announcement that artificial intelligence will eventually replace workers In the language learning application, the CEO of Duolingo said that the company “continues employment” and will support its current workers in accelerating technology. Klarna’s start -up is followed in retracting the first promise of artificial intelligence.

App Duolingo has become the language of the most recent company that publicly relieves artificial intelligence after a series of bold statements on artificial intelligence that replaces people with great criticism.

Louis von Ahn, co -founder and CEO, took over LinkedIn on Thursday to walk in a previous position that pushes artificial intelligence to use human employees.

“To be clear: I do not see Amnesty International to replace what our employees do (we are actually continuing to use it at the same speed as before),” he wrote. “I see it as a tool to accelerate what we do, at the same level or better than quality. The more we learn how to use it, and use it responsible, the better in the long run.”

He added: “No one is expected to move on this transition on its own. We develop workshops and consulting councils, and we grant time a dedicated experience to help all of our teams learn and adapt.”

The clarification is a 180 -degree turn from the company’s website a week ago, when it announced that it “gradually stops the use of contractors to do the work that artificial intelligence can deal with”, assessing the fluency of artificial intelligence in the annual reviews of workers, and adding only new employees “if the team is not able to run more of their work.”

Von Ahn seems to throw his weight behind artificial intelligence on human teachers in the appearance of podcasts. Speak on No screaming With Sarah Qouh, he expected artificial intelligence to be able to teach any topic, on a broader scale, and create “better educational results” than human teachers, but added that schools will continue to exist “because you still need to care for children.”

Criticism flew in the accounts of the famous company Tiktok and Instagram, and the commentators on Bash AI were conducted in every modern post. (In one of the video clip in which one of the owl owl films asked, “Mama, may I get a cookie”, I read the highest comment: “Mama may have real people to run the company”) until the company put Von Ahn in his Tijok, in exchange for a convincing person, Hodi wears an explanation that “artificial intelligence will allow us to reach more people.”

A spokesman for Dolingo said luck: “We are still growing our team, and we are training and developing our talents so that they can benefit from the use of artificial intelligence.” He added: “All the content of artificial intelligence is created under the supervision and guidance of our learning experts. We have strict quality standards to ensure that any content published is safe, accurate and in line with CEFR”, with reference to the international standard to measure language capacity.

Emerging companies curb their enthusiasm

Duolingo’s self -correction is the latest in a modern direction.

It was Fintech Klarana on artificial intelligence last month. After publicly promoting Chatbot from artificial intelligence, saying that she did not employ humans in one year, the company’s CEO revealed that “low quality” of Chatbot means that it will start employing humans again after all.

Shopify faced similar criticism after a memorandum mainly said that the productivity of artificial intelligence will replace new appointments.

Duolingo’s reverse reaction is the latest evidence that “AI-FIRST” tends to be more understandable with more attractiveness for investors and managers more than most ordinary people. It is not difficult to know the reason. Trucific artificial intelligence is often trained in content content that may have been accessed illegally; A large part of its production is strange or incorrect; Some leaders in this field oppose technology regulations.

But outside the outlets designated at work with white collars for beginners, the productivity of artificial intelligence has not yet been achieved. The IBM poll from 2000 leaders found that 3 out of 4 Amnesty International initiatives fail to provide the promised investment returns. The recent National Economic Research Office for the Economic Research Office found 25,000 workers in the industries exposed to the family organization that this technology did not make workers significantly more productive and had no effect on profits as well as hours.

That adopted tool very quickly, as the expectations are very high, [was] Anders Hamelum, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, one of the authors of the NBER study, said, said luck.

“It seems much smaller and slower than you might imagine that you have just studied technology capabilities in a vacuum.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-05-24 08:03:00