Reed Hastings, the previous CEO of Netflix that now serves because the streamer’s chairman, has been appointed to the board of administrators of Anthropic, the AI firm introduced on Wednesday.
Hastings has expertise serving on the boards of Fb, Microsoft, and Bloomberg and served as CEO of Netflix since its founding, stepping down in 2023.
Anthropic, which is behind the Massive Language Mannequin (LLM) Claude designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, hasn’t been as centered on picture and video technology fashions that might converse to the leisure area, however the firm final 12 months acquired $4 billion in funding from Amazon to proceed rising. It additionally is thought for its Constitutional AI initiative that’s designed to align AI with human values.
Hastings lately donated $50 million to Bowdoin School to determine a analysis initiative on AI and Humanity. This system examines how AI will remodel work, relationships, and training whereas growing moral frameworks for its use, which is strictly up Anthropic’s alley.
Hastings was appointed to the board by Anthropic’s Lengthy Time period Profit Belief.
“The Lengthy Time period Profit Belief appointed Reed as a result of his spectacular management expertise, deep philanthropic work, and dedication to addressing AI’s societal challenges makes him uniquely certified to information Anthropic at this essential juncture in AI improvement” stated Buddy Shah, Chair of Anthropic’s Lengthy Time period Profit Belief.
“Anthropic could be very optimistic in regards to the AI advantages for humanity, however can be very conscious of the financial, social, and security challenges. I’m becoming a member of Anthropic’s board as a result of I consider of their method to AI improvement, and to assist humanity progress,” Hastings stated in an announcement.
“Reed understands that know-how corporations have a duty past simply constructing merchandise,” stated Daniela Amodei, President of Anthropic. “His concentrate on the human influence of know-how — whether or not at Netflix or by his world well being and training initiatives — makes him a perfect addition to our board as we proceed constructing AI that helps reasonably than harms.”
Present Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos lately addressed the place he believes the “larger alternative” lies with AI in filmmaking.
“There’s a ton of pleasure about what AI can do for content material creators,” Sarandos stated on a latest earnings name. “I learn the article too about what Jim Cameron stated about making films 50 % cheaper. I stay satisfied that there’s a good larger alternative if you may make films 10 % higher. So, our expertise at present is utilizing AI instruments to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning, every kind of issues at present that form of make the method higher.”