Reed Hastings

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TED Talks Daily · Why AI is an even bigger deal than you think | Reed Hastings · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

So imagine you go to school, you have your normal social activities, but when it comes to learning, you get an individual who's going to sit down with you and then they could do Khan Academy or they could do Color Book or whatever is appropriate, that learning would be massively increased.

And there was a famous study 40 years ago, Bloom, that documented this.

And now a friend of mine, Ben Summers, is redoing that study, but at a much bigger scale.

And I think what we're going to see is the key to much more learning, where middle school kids know all of the high school curriculum, high school knows all of the college, much better outcomes, will be individualized education.

I'm a huge fan.

I totally agree with all his zip-up phones and don't use phones.

And I think you guys clarified he likes offline tablets, that's fine.

It's the internet that's the problem, not the physical device.

And so I think there's lots of ways to cater to the concerns that he correctly expresses, which is letting kids go wild on the internet under 16 is not great.

But you don't have to do that to be able to do individualized tutoring.

So the individualized tutoring we're doing is with humans, OK?

They can use some technology if they want.

But then obviously that's cost prohibitive, because it's about $100,000 per kid per year.

So then the hard challenge becomes, how do we use AI to approximate that human and provide everyone an individualized education as AI gets better?

Current AI is not good enough to do that, but in three years, we've gone from ChatGPD 3.5 and barely being able to do high school math to just incredible intelligence, and that's likely to just continue to double, double, double and get better and better and better.

So there is a world where the AI, I think, will be able to match and beat the human individual tutor.

Well, let's think about schools.

So three big purposes.

One is create good citizens.

Another is give economic opportunity to the kids.

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