Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?

Dwolingo announces plans to replace contractors with AI this week and become a “AI First” company-a move Journalist Brian Merchant indicated As a sign that the AI ​​job crisis is “here.”

In fact, the merchant spoke to a former Dolengo contractor who said it was not a new policy. The company cut about 10 percent of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023, and the merchant said that in October 2024, there is another period of deductions. In both cases, the contractors (first translator, then authors) were replaced with AI.

The merchant also mentioned reporting in the nearby Atlantic Abnormally unemployed rate for recent college graduates. An explanation? Perhaps companies are taking the entry level with white collar jobs with AI, or their costs on AI can be “crowded” with the cost of getting new services.

The merchant writes that the crisis is really a series of “administration decisions that are seeking to reduce labor costs through executives and strengthen control of their organizations,” and it is “a shortage in the creative industries, independent artists, authors, and reflective revenue.

“The AI ​​Jobs crisis is not like a Scient-AC robot job. Tens of thousands of federal employees opening firing By waving the banner of ‘An AI first strategy,’“He added.