Stories by Asmelash Teka Hadgu

Asmelash Teka Hadgu is co-founder and chief technology officer of Lesan AI and a fellow at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). He focuses on building advanced speech-recognition and machine-translation systems for underrepresented languages.

Illustration of man looking up at wall of photos of robots who are employees of the month

OpinionApril 14, 2025

Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian Nightmare

The Trump administration sees an AI-driven federal workforce as more efficient. Instead, with chatbots unable to carry out critical tasks, it would be a diabolical mess

Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Timnit Gebru