Luis von Ahn
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder · Pioneered crowdsourced AI training data and heads the world’s largest language education platform with over 100 million active monthly learners.
Stance on AGI
"Views large language models as personalized one-on-one tutors capable of scaling educational parity globally, provided they are bound to structured pedagogical scaffolding."
Luis von Ahn is the CEO and co-founder of Duolingo, a consulting professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, and a MacArthur Fellow. He invented CAPTCHA, pioneered crowdsourced human computation with reCAPTCHA (acquired by Google in 2009), and founded Duolingo to democratize global language education.