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

And so the number of scans has gone way up.

And guess what?

We have a shortage in radiologists.

We have 35,000, we need about 40,000.

Wages have climbed to close to $500,000 a year.

So even the best intentioned people in the field can prophesy disaster in radiology and have it be not accurate.

So again, and it's just a timing thing, because in 20 years, I'm confident Hinton will be right.

So just think, there's two examples there, which is a lot of the stuff may not happen right away, but it's still probably going to happen in a long time, 20 years.

Some of it might happen in a short time, so you'll want to be ready for it.

If the AI really gets incredible in a very short amount of time, like starts writing itself and self-improving, all of that... Isn't it writing 90% of itself right now?

You know, again, lines of code is a tricky measure.

When it's invented a new type of learning, so there's reinforcement learning, when it invents something completely new, then you can say that.

So there are cases where it's pretty fast, and so I think it's important to say we should be ready.

Now, here's the thing, we talk a whole bunch about unemployment, what it will do.

Every other time we've had big unemployment, it's been a recession, and so the stock market's down and government tax revenues are down.

This time, if AI is successful in the way we think it will, I think we're going to see high productivity, high GDP growth,

high stock market and high unemployment.

So we'll have money to do things.

And so think of it like the Alaska fund, which is oil, or the Norwegian sovereign fund.

We need some ideas like that.

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