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

If you happen to be a pure software company, then it might be relevant for that class of company.

But broadly across the economy, I think everyone is figuring out, you know, it's a bigger version of the internet wave where all companies had to...

do things, and we used to talk about our AOL keyword and crazy stuff like that, which was the phasing in.

This is a lot bigger and more intense, but it's sort of a larger version of that same thing, which is all companies around the world, organizations, governments, militaries, are scrambling to figure out how to use AI well.

Well, look, if you look over the last 200 years, there have been a bunch of dislocations, but they happened slowly in over one part of the economy.

And so the danger is, are there multiple that happen in multiple fields?

If these happen slowly, then people are able to find other roles.

So it depends on how fast this all comes.

And again, I would say the biggest uncertainty for everybody is how fast is the AI getting better, and how fast will it be getting better going forward?

And then that changes your views and assumptions.

So let's look at self-driving cars.

I mean, you know, we thought 20 years ago it was going to be pretty fast, and it's 20 years later from when it started, 2007 and the DARPA Grand Challenge,

And we're like, what, 0.1 percent of all miles, maybe 0.001 percent.

I mean, that's really pretty tiny, OK, 20 years later.

So these things take a long time to actually mature and diffuse.

Another example is Jeffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize for his work on neural nets and really the father of AI.

And in 2016, so 10 years ago, he said, stop training radiologists now, because in five years, 2021, there would be no need for them.

So what's happened instead is, as radiology got AI-boosted, the cost came down.

You can walk into an MRI center in the US for $300 and get an MRI now.

And so docs started ordering them more and using them more, and insurance covered them more.

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