Duolingo’s battle for learning in an AI world, with Luis von Ahn

0:01What kind of world are we going to have?

0:03The type of world that I would like to have is a world where people really are bettering themselves.

0:08That is one way in which they find meaning in life.

0:11Will it be the case that in 10 years we can get a significant fraction of humanity's population, billions of people, actually learning something, as opposed to either doom scrolling or just giving up on life because AI can do everything?

0:26We got to more than 100 million active users, but that's too small of a fraction of humanity.

0:38That's Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of Duolingo, the language learning app that cross a billion dollars in annual revenue last year.

0:47Duolingo is known on social media for its slightly unhinged owl mascot, but it was Luis himself who went viral last year over an internal AI memo that sparked intense public controversy.