By Dade Hayes ,
43 minutes ago Amid a flood of AI news Monday, Anthropic board member Reed Hastings expressed his view that artificial intelligence will threaten many companies but not likely the human race.
Hastings, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, joined the Claude maker’s board last year. In an appearance on the podcast On with Kara Swisher , Hastings addressed Anthropic and the broader AI landscape in addition to weighing in on his alma mater’s recent struggles .
Multiple former Anthropic and OpenAI staffers made news in recent weeks by warning that there is a greater than 10% chance of human extinction within the next decade. Researcher Jacob Coxon, who did a flurry of media appearances after his doomsday prediction went viral on social media, “is not the ideal messenger,” Hastings said, but the message still “resonates” with the public.
“We lived through a terrible era with nuclear weapons where we could have blown each other up and there were times when it was close and I don’t want to repeat it,” Hastings said. “I don’t want to just because we can, get through a 10% chance of nuclear holocaust, let’s not do that again. So let’s keep the odds way, way low about what it...