While Duullingo CEO Louis von Ahan was loudly criticized this year Announcing that Duoolingo would become a “AI-first company” He suggested in a new interview that the real issue was that he “did not give enough references.”
“Internal, it was not controversial,” Von Ego told New York Times“Externally, as a publicly trading company, some people believe that it is just for profit. Or we are trying to overcome humans. And it was not at all intended.”
Conversely, von Ahan said that the company has “never closed full -time employees” and no intention to do so. And when he did not deny that Duoolingo was near Cut its contractor workforceHe suggested that “from the beginning … our contractors have gone up and down based on the workforce needs.”
Despite criticism (which It doesn’t seem not a big impact On the bottom line of Duullingo), von Ahan still seems to be very fast about AI’s ability, Duullingo takes team members to experiment with technology every Friday morning.
“This is a bad brief, fry-day,” he said. “I don’t know how to pronounce it.”
