Duolingo CEO says it will remove contracted employees and replace them with AI

Duolingo sent out the owls yesterday for a long lunch, with CEO Luis von Ahn making a bold declaration. Von AnneI saidIn emails for every hand he shared LinkedInthat Duolingo will be “AI-First”.

What does that mean?The biggest change is to begin phased out contractors of work that AI can handle. Von Ahn said this is to overcome the human limitations of creating “a huge amount of content.”

• The company only allows new hires if the team proves it cannot automate the work. The candidate’s facility AI will be evaluated during the recruitment process.
• The movement continues with Uber Shopifyboth said AI is essential to their companies.

Duolingo employees can also expect AI to be scored in performance reviews.

Overall: Duolingo saw it explosion User growth has been around since it was released four years ago. The number of paid subscribers increased from just under 2 million in 2021 to over 8 million last year. Von Ahn told employees that despite the fact that AI is not perfect, the company moves rather quickly, “taking a small hit on quality rather than slowly miss the moment.”—mm

This report was It was originally published by Morning brewing.

This story was originally introduced Fortune.com