Netflix chairman Reed Hastings joins board of AI giant Anthropic

Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is joining the committee of San Francisco-based artificial quality institution Anthropic.

Anthropic, valued astatine $61.5 cardinal aft its astir caller backing circular successful March, is known for its AI chatbot exemplary Claude.

“Anthropic is precise optimistic astir the AI benefits for humanity, but is besides precise alert of the economic, social, and information challenges,” Hastings said. “I’m joining Anthropic’s committee due to the fact that I judge successful their attack to AI development, and to assistance humanity progress.”

Netflix is 1 of the world’s astir prolific producers of movies and TV shows, known for its contented proposal algorithm.

Hollywood is grappling with the implications of generative artificial intelligence, which studios judge could prevention wealth and time, but besides comes with downsides. Labor groups fearfulness occupation displacement, and determination are besides concerns astir the usage of copyrighted worldly erstwhile grooming AI models.

Hastings was selected by Anthropic’s Long Term Benefit Trust, which the institution describes arsenic “five financially disinterested members” that tin prime and region a information of the board.

The radical selected Hastings due to the fact that of his enactment experience, philanthropic enactment and “commitment to addressing AI’s societal challenges makes him uniquely qualified to usher Anthropic astatine this captious juncture successful AI development,” said Buddy Shah, seat of Anthropic’s Long Term Benefit Trust, successful a statement.

Hastings volition articulation the company’s five-member board, which includes Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei, President Daniela Amodei, capitalist Yasmin Razavi and Jay Kreps, CEO of Mountain View-based information streaming steadfast Confluent.

Hastings served arsenic CEO oregon co-CEO of Netflix for 25 years until 2023. He presently serves connected the boards of different organizations including Bloomberg, the fiscal information and media company.

He has donated wealth to charter schoolhouse networks serving low-income U.S. communities and precocious gave $50 cardinal to Bowdoin College to found the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity that aims to assistance the schoolhouse supply ethical frameworks for AI and analyse AI’s interaction connected enactment and education.