Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings has donated $50 million to launch the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity at Bowdoin College in Maine at a time when artificial intelligence continues to be a hot-button issue.
The largest gift in the college’s 231-year history will be “a step forward in Bowdoin’s growing engagement in this breakthrough technology and ensure that students graduate well-prepared to lead in a world reshaped by AI,” it said. “Funding and fellowships will allow current and new faculty to explore the pedagogical and scholarship opportunities — and challenges — generated by the vast AI revolution.”
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Initial priorities include hiring 10 new faculty members in a range of disciplines; supporting current faculty who want to incorporate and interrogate AI in their teaching, research and other work; and conversations about the uses of AI and the changes and challenges
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