Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, September 27th.

Today on Forbes, Duolingo's billionaire founder is all in on AI.

Sitting in Duos Takeria, a dimly lit upscale Mexican restaurant in Pittsburgh,

Luis Van An contemplates the end of work as we know it.

In between bites of al-pastor tacos and sips of a margarine of talks about how AI will make some jobs disappear,

and workers will need to be retrained.

He speaks from experience.

Late last year, Duo Lingo decided not to renew the contracts of about 10%

of its contracted workforce who did

translations and lesson writing, instead opting to use AI for those tasks in some

cases. Of the dismissals, Van An said, quote,

Our stance as a company is that if we can automate something, we will.

A full-time employee's job is very hard to automate, but we had some hourly contractors who were doing pretty rote stuff.

While he firmly believes it was the right call for his company, he's cognizant of the broader problems

AI will bring. He said, quote,

it's a tough situation that will affect the poor, the less educated,

and not just in the US, but in poor countries.

From a table in the back of the restaurant, which was originally designed by Duolingo as a place where diners could practice their Spanish,

he notes it will require smart regulation from world governments to make sure AI is equitable.

But he doesn't have much faith in the US.

He said, quote,

It's just very hard right now to imagine that the US is going to legislate this well,

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