Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings joins Anthropic’s board of directors

Anthropic is adding a caller idiosyncratic to its board: Reed Hastings, Netflix’s chairman, co-founder, and erstwhile CEO.

“Hastings brings extended acquisition from founding and scaling Netflix into a planetary amusement powerhouse, on with his work connected the boards of Facebook, Microsoft, and Bloomberg,” Anthropic says in its announcement post.

The institution adds that “as idiosyncratic who’s some built Netflix into a planetary level and invested heavy successful acquisition betterment and integer infrastructure successful emerging markets, helium brings a applicable knowing of however to guarantee exertion serves broader societal goals from the start.”

“Anthropic is precise optimistic astir the AI benefits for humanity, but is besides precise alert of the economic, social, and information challenges,” Hastings says successful a statement. “I’m joining Anthropic’s committee due to the fact that I judge successful their attack to AI development, and to assistance humanity progress.”

Anthropic’s committee besides includes CEO Dario Amodei, President Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, and Jay Kreps. The institution precocious released its Claude 4 AI models.

Hastings stepped down arsenic Netflix’s co-CEO in 2023.