Duolingo was evaluating its workers’ AI use. Workers pushed back.
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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: “For a while,” von Ahn said, AI usage was a metric of company performance reviews. But it won’t be anymore, once employees pushed back. Now, Duolingo has backtracked on using AI use as a performanc
