Reed Hastings

Obviously, when we all use AI as consumers, we can find, you know, it's pretty miraculous in some cases, but in other cases, it's not very effective.

But, you know, we're understanding more and more of the techniques.

And again, one theory is it'll be like Moore's Law and just AI will get better and better and better and better.

The other theory is it's sort of like the war on cancer, where cancer developed over a very long time.

It has lots of different etiologies.

And we keep coming up with a solution for one cancer, but not another.

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.