Possible: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers

In the nineteen eighties, I was in the AI wave that was expert systems, and they were public companies. And the fifth generation and the Japanese were gonna be this big frat and, you know, and that AI didn't work, but this one is. Anything that lives in the emotional realm will be impacted not as much by AI because we humans react to these things emotionally. And so, again, I think we'll not watch robots playing basketball. STEM practically took over Stanford University. Okay. Okay? And now maybe what we'll see is a rotation, you know, back to the humanities into, understanding combination of, history and literature. If I had a three year old today, I would be, like, doubling down on the emotional skills. In twenty years, robots will do maybe 1% of the plumbing. At most. Reed Hastings is the cofounder and former CEO of Netflix, the company that helped define the streaming error. And in doing so, rewired how 2,000,000,000 people spend their evenings. Under his leadership, Netflix launched streaming, pioneered the original content model with House of Cards, went global in a 190 countries, and produced some of the most watched programming in TV history. He ran it for twenty five years. But Reid's ambitions have always extended well beyond entertainment. He served on the boards of Microsoft and Meta. He's currently on the boards of Bloomberg and Anthropic. He's given hundreds of millions of dollars to education reform, and he holds a master's degree in artificial intelligence from Stanford from 1988 before most of us had AI on our radar. Today, we're asking, what does someone with that vantage point across entertainment, technology, AI safety, and the long arc of institutional change actually think is happening right now. Where is the leverage? What are we getting wrong? And what would it look like for this moment to go genuinely well for humanity? This is a conversation about technology as a civilizational lever about whether the people building AI and the people governing it are asking the right questions about what entertainment can teach us about human nature and what human nature can teach us about AI and about what it means to have spent thirty five years watching technology reshape the world and to still believe the best is ahead. And now to our conversation with Reed Hastings. Reed, awesome as usual to talk with you. I know we'd start with something a little light for both of us, so I'll answer this too, but we'll start with you. In various weird ways, we get mistaken for each other. What was one of the funny ways that comes to mind for you about being mistaken for me? And then I will I will also answer that question. Oh, Reid Hoffman, Reid Hastings, both in deck. So I get introduced sometimes at conferences and someone's done the quick chat GPT and they, you know, do it on read or read h or something, and they …