[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"nav-categories":3,"article-billionaire-sips-margaritas-as-he-predicts-how-ai-will-kill-jobs-for-the-most-desperate-people":70},{"data":4},[5,37,57,64],{"name":6,"slug":7,"categories":8},"Productivity","productivity",[9,13,17,21,25,29,33],{"id":10,"title":11,"slug":12},17,"Branding","branding",{"id":14,"title":15,"slug":16},19,"Marketing","marketing",{"id":18,"title":19,"slug":20},20,"Work","work",{"id":22,"title":23,"slug":24},34,"Community","community",{"id":26,"title":27,"slug":28},21,"For newbies","for-newbies",{"id":30,"title":31,"slug":32},24,"Investment","investment",{"id":34,"title":35,"slug":36},22,"Finance","finance",{"name":38,"slug":39,"categories":40},"Tech","tech",[41,45,49,53],{"id":42,"title":43,"slug":44},28,"Technology","technology",{"id":46,"title":47,"slug":48},32,"Artificial Intelligence","artificial-intelligence",{"id":50,"title":51,"slug":52},26,"Security and protection","security-and-protection",{"id":54,"title":55,"slug":56},31,"YouTube Blog","youtube-blog",{"name":58,"slug":59,"categories":60},"News","news",[61],{"id":62,"title":58,"slug":63},18,"quasanews",{"name":65,"slug":66,"categories":67},"Business","business",[68],{"id":69,"title":65,"slug":66},16,{"post":71,"published_news":95,"popular_news":165,"categories":235},{"title":72,"description":73,"meta_title":72,"meta_description":73,"meta_keywords":74,"text":75,"slug":76,"created_at":77,"publish_at":78,"formatted_created_at":79,"category_id":46,"links":80,"view_type":85,"video_url":86,"views":87,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"category":90},"Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People","Updated to clarify that Duolingo terminated contractors rather than firing full-time workers.","Billionaire, Predicts, AI Will Kill Jobs, artificial intelligence, esperate People","\u003Cp>Hello!\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Updated to clarify that Duolingo terminated contractors rather than firing full-time workers.\u003C/em> The person running the popular language learning app Duolingo isn't afraid of job automation in the age of \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/artificial-intelligence-and-humans-as-partners-of-work-can-it-be-done\">AI\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-5.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"170\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-5.jpeg\" width=\"297\" />\u003C/picture>In fact, CEO and founder Luis von Ahn is willing to discuss the gloomy prospect of mass layoffs caused by the advent of AI tools while enjoying "bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita," as \u003Cem>Forbes\u003C/em> reports.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The company has already cut off contractors tasked with coming up with alternative ways to phrase translations in January.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Unsurprisingly, the changes were in large part thanks to the advent of AI.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>"Generative \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/how-to-use-artificial-intelligence-ai-for-lead-generation\">AI\u003C/a> is accelerating our work by helping us create new content dramatically faster," von Ahn wrote in a November shareholder letter.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>And while a "full time employee’s job is very hard to automate," he told \u003Cem>Forbes\u003C/em>over a meal at Duolingo's Mexican restaurant, designed to have diners practice their Spanish, "we had some hourly contractors who were doing pretty rote stuff."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch4>Sorry Poor People\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>The billionaire tech founder also had some thoughts about how AI could affect the rest of the world. "It’s a tough situation that'll affect the poor, the less educated," he told \u003Cem>Forbes\u003C/em>. "And not just in the US, but in poor countries."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-2.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"183\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-2.jpeg\" width=\"275\" />\u003C/picture>Von Ahn has been staunchly pro-AI from the get-go, going as far as to say that AI could eventually make computers better teachers than people.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Most recently, his company released an AI-powered video chat feature that allows users to converse with a mascot called Lily to practice their language skills.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The CEO even told \u003Cem>Forbes \u003C/em>that he's "prepared" for eventually having to "stick our foot in our mouth" if Lily were to ever go "haywire" or "getting into, say, I don’t know, some Nazi stuff," like some AI chatbots before it.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Von Ahn's blind trust in the tech is symptomatic of a much greater and worrying trend, with tech leaders frothing at the mouth to replace human workers with AI. The heated debate surrounding the topic has persisted since the release of OpenAI's \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/you-can-insert-false-memories-into-chatgpt-researcher-finds\">ChatGPT\u003C/a> in late 2022, with Goldman Sachs estimating last year that 300 million jobs could be on the chopping block.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-8.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People\" class=\"image-align-left\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-8.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>And as Von Ahn's willing to admit, those layoffs won't be coming for other billionaire founders like him any time soon. Instead, it'll be the far less privileged who are likely the first to be let go.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Whether DuoLingo's all-in on AI will result in tangible benefits to its users remains to be seen. Experts doubt that AI could ever replace human tutors, with the University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education dean Elizabeth Birr Moje telling \u003Cem>Forbes\u003C/em> that AI "cannot see if a student is experiencing frustration. It cannot see body language. It cannot see joy."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Also read:\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/varun-venaik-s-experience-with-intermittent-fasting\">Varun Venaik’s Experience With Intermittent Fasting\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/each-anft-created-in-the-quasa-nft-app-burns-qua-quasacoin-tokens\">Each ANFT Created in The QUASA NFT app. Burns QUA (Quasacoin) Tokens.\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/avoid-these-5-common-marketing-mistakes-for-small-businesses\">Avoid These 5 Common Marketing Mistakes for Small Businesses\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Cp>Thank you!\u003Cbr />\nJoin us on social media!\u003Cbr />\nSee 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