Reed Hastings

And our overall progress in society against cancer has been pretty steady, but flat and definitely not exponential.

and so you know it may be that as ai gets better it hits various walls and that we've got some time to deal with it or it may be that it stays on this exponential so we're just going to have to watch but i think we need to be prepared for it to be on the exponential in which case um we're going to have a lot of societal stress over the next 20 years

Well, it's a big challenge.

It's hard to slow down because unlike chemical weapons, like we're kind of in a war with the West and Russia, and yet no one's using chemical weapons and no one's using nuclear weapons.

So even in this incredible state of war, we're able to put some limits on what happens.

The problem with AI is it's very continuous.

You know, your thermostat is an AI thermostat.

So there's no good way for even the major powers to agree not to use AI because it's so integrated through everything else that we do.

So there's no real practical scenario to take a break as human society, even if we could get the politics to work on that.

So instead, we're in the situation where we in America better well damn win the race.

And so everyone acknowledges that.

And so all the companies are going full out, both for their own competitive reasons.

And so it is a race, hopefully, to the top.

of what can AI do for us.

And there will be amazing positive scenarios, all kinds of medical cures, all kinds of productivity.

I certainly, six years ago, AI was very good at image analysis.

That was one of the kind of workloads that it first got good at.

And in particular in radiology, it got significantly better than the typical radiologist pretty quickly and has been better than the typical radiologist

for at least five years.

And so I would say, you know, weddings with friends who are radiologists, what's good that your kids are not going in the business because radiology is going to be the first profession that's wrecked by AI.