US EditionNetflix founder donates $50 million to Bowdoin to study AI
- Reed Hastings has donated $50 million to Bowdoin College to support AI research and teaching, marking the largest gift in the college's history.
- This funding will allow Bowdoin to hire 10 new faculty members and support discussions about AI's challenges and implications.
- Bowdoin College President Safa Zaki expressed gratitude for the contribution and emphasized its potential to enhance ethical discussions around AI.
- Hastings believes that as AI advances, deep thinking is necessary to ensure human flourishing.
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Netflix CEO Donates $50M to an AI 'Moral Imperative'
Bowdoin College just got the largest financial infusion it's ever received in its 231-year history, courtesy of one of its most famous former students. Reed Hastings, who graduated from the Maine liberal arts college in 1983, has ponied up $50 million to his alma mater for the Hastings Initiative for...
'We're Going to Be Fighting for the Survival of Humanity': Netflix Co-Founder Donates $50 Million to Alma Mater for AI Initiative
Bowdoin College has received a $50 million donation from Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, the Maine-based school announced Monday.
Bowdoin gets largest gift in the college's history from Netflix co-founder
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has made the largest single gift in Bowdoin College’s 231-year history. The $50 million donation will help the Brunswick college launch the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity. “This donation seeks to advance Bowdoin’s mission of cultivating wisdom for the common good by deepening the College’s engagement with one of humanity’s most transformative developments: artificial intelligence,” Hastings, who earned a…
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