Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?
Duolingo announced this week to replace contractors with AI and to be an “first” company-a movement that Journalist Brian Merchant pointed out As a sign that the AI job crisis is “here, now.”
Merchant even spoke with a former Duolingo contractor who said that this is not even a new policy. At the end of 2023, the company cut around 10% of the contractor’s workforce and the trader said there was still a round of austerity in October 2024. In both cases, contractors (first translators, then writers) were replaced by AI.
Trader also noted that reporting was in the Atlantic Ocean The unusually high unemployment rate for recent graduates. One statement? Companies may be able to replace white collar lanes at entry level with AI, or their expenses for AI can easily “harden” the expenditure for new employees.
This crisis, Merchant wrote, is really “a series of management decisions made by managers who want to lower labor costs and want to consolidate control in their organizations”, and manifests itself as “wear in creative industries, the decreasing income of freelance artists, writers and illustrators.”
“The AI job crisis is no kind of Skynet-like robot courts apocalypse it is it Doge dismisses tens of thousands of federal employees While you are waving the banner from “An AI-first strategy,” ““He added.
