Get the latest tech news

After 'AI-First' Promise, Duolingo CEO Admits 'I Did Not Expect the Blowback'


Last month, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn "shared on LinkedIn an email he had sent to all staff announcing Duolingo was going 'AI-first'," remembers the Financial Times. "I did not expect the amount of blowback," he admits.... He attributes this anger to a general "anxiety" about technology replacing...

Graduates who make up half the people it hires every year "come with a different mindset" because they are using AI at university. Similarly, designers will have more of a supervisory role, with AI helping to create artwork that fits Duolingo's "very specific style". For the vast majority of jobs, this is what's going to happen...." [S]ocietal implications for AI, such as the ethics of stealing creators' copyright, are "a real concern".

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of promise

promise

Photo of Duolingo CEO

Duolingo CEO

Photo of blowback

blowback

Related news:

News photo

Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’

News photo

University of Michigan achieves first human brain recording with wireless implant | New brain-computer interface shows promise in restoring communication

News photo

China’s Manus Shows the Promise of AI Agents: Review