Duolingo was evaluating its workers’ AI use. Workers pushed back. |
Duolingo was evaluating its workers’ AI use. Workers pushed back.
CEO Luis von Ahn said the company ‘backtracked’ from performance reviews that evaluated employees’ use of the technology.
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After introducing a new strategy for performance reviews to include evaluations of how effectively workers use AI, Duolingo founder and CEO Luis von Ahn said employees started questioning the decision. And due to the pushback, Duolingo has reversed its decision on using AI as a performance metric.
Employees had asked if they were simply using AI for AI’s sake. “At the end, we backtracked, and we said, ‘No, look. The most important thing in your performance is you are doing whatever your job is as well as possible,’” von Ahn said in a recent episode of the Silicon Valley Girl........