Anthropic appoints Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings to board
Reed Hastings speaks on the 2021 Milken Institute International Convention in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. October 18, 2021.
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Synthetic intelligence startup Anthropic stated Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is becoming a member of its board of administrators.
Hastings, who co-founded Netflix in 1997 and served as CEO (and ultimately co-CEO) of the streaming large till 2023, was appointed to the board by Anthropic’s Lengthy Time period Profit Belief, an impartial physique of 5 financially disinterested members, in accordance with a press launch on Wednesday.
Hastings, 64, has held different high-profile board positions within the tech sector, together with at Microsoft, Bloomberg and Fb, which is now Meta.
Anthropic stated Hastings brings “intensive expertise” and an “understanding of how to make sure know-how serves broader societal objectives” to the corporate.
“Anthropic may be very optimistic concerning the AI advantages for humanity, however can be very conscious of the financial, social, and security challenges,” Hastings stated in an announcement. “I am becoming a member of Anthropic’s board as a result of I consider of their method to AI growth, and to assist humanity progress.”
Hastings just lately donated $50 million to his alma mater Bowdoin Faculty in Maine to assist set up an AI analysis initiative. This system will discover moral frameworks for the know-how in addition to the way it will affect training, work and relationships.
Anthropic stated this system carefully mirrors its personal analysis priorities, in accordance with the discharge.
“His concentrate on the human influence of know-how — whether or not at Netflix or via 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,” Anthropic President Daniela Amodei stated in an announcement.
Anthropic, which was valued earlier this 12 months at $61.5 billion, is attempting to maintain tempo in an AI arms race with rivals like OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, whereas additionally professing the significance of AI security.
