Duolingo announced plans this week to replace the contractors with AI and become a “Ai-Primo” of the company, a movement that the journalist Brian Merchant pointed out as a sign that the crisis of work of AI “is here now.”
In fact, Merchant spoke with a former Duolingo contractor who said this is a new policy. The company reduced about 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023, and Merchant said there was another round of cuts in October 2024. In boats, contractors (first translators, then writers) were replaced by AI.
The merchant also indicated reports in the Atlantic around the unusually high unemployment rate for recent university graduates. An explanation? Companies could be replacing white -collar entry collar work with AI, or their expenditure on AI could simply be “displacing” spending for new hiring.
This crisis, Merchant Wrote, Is Really “A Series of Management Decions Being Made by Executives Seeking To Cut Work Costs and Consolidate Control in Their Organizations,” and It’s Manife Correlance, and in Correlance, and in Correlance, and in Correlance, and In Correlance, and In Correlance, and in Correlance, and in Correlance, and in Correlance “, and the inclination to simply hire less human workers. “
“The Ai Jobs crisis is not any type of Skynet Apocalypse style robot, which shoots tens of thousands of federal employees while shaking the banner of” an Ai-First strategy, “he added.
