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- Duolingo is laying off contractors as it boosts the use of AI tools.
- The company said it no longer needed as many workers, partly because of the tech.
- Fears around potential job losses to AI are increasing as more companies implement the technology.
Duolingo is laying off 10% of its contractors after implementing AI to carry out certain tasks.
In a statement shared with Bloomberg, a spokesperson for the educational-tech company said: "We just no longer need as many people to do the type of work some of these contractors were doing. Part of that could be attributed to AI."