Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings has given $50 million to his alma mater, Bowdoin College in Maine, in support of a new initiative centered on AI.
The gift, which is the largest in Bowdoin’s history, will enable the school to hire 10 new faculty members in a range of disciplines. It will help current faculty members looking to incorporate AI in their teaching, research, and artistic work and also support conversations about AI’s uses and challenges, including workshops, symposia, and support for student research.
“This donation seeks to advance Bowdoin’s mission of cultivating wisdom for the common good by deepening the college’s engagement with one of humanity’s most transformative developments: artificial intelligence,” Hastings said in a press release. “We aim to develop leaders who can be ‘at home’ in both the present and future technological landscape.”
Hastings graduated from Bowdoin in 1983 and went on to earn a Master’s degree in
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