On Monday, April 29th, Luis von Ahn, the billionaire CEO of the popular language learning app Duolingo, made a public announcement that his company is officially "going to be AI-first.” Duolingo, von Ahn wrote in an email to all employees that was also posted to LinkedIn, will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle.” The CEO took pains to note that “this isn’t about replacing Duos with AI.” According to one such Duolingo contractor, this is not accurate. For one thing, i...