Reed Hastings '83, cofounder, former CEO, and now chairman of the board at Netflix, say he looks for AI to drive a return to the humanities.
Hastings, who was a math major at Bowdoin before earning his master’s in computer science at Stanford University, says following a period where STEM “practically took over,” that “maybe what we’ll see is a rotation back to the humanities into understanding a combination of history and literature.”
“If I had a three-year-old today, I'd be doubling down on emotional skills," added Hastings in this Fortune article, excerpting from an interview Hastings did with the podcast Possible.
Hastings's $50 million gift last year launched the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity at Bowdoin.
