Possible: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers

0:00In the 1980s, I was in the AI wave that was expert systems, and they were public companies, and the fifth generation, and the Japanese were going to be this big threat, and you know, and that AI didn't work.

0:11But this one is.

0:12Anything that lives in the emotional realm will be impacted not as much by AI because we humans react to these things emotionally.

0:21And so, again, I think we'll not watch robots playing basketball.

0:26STEM practically took over Stanford University.

0:29And now maybe what we'll see is a rotation, you know, back to the humanities and to understanding combination of history and literature.

0:39If I had a three-year-old today, I would be like doubling down on the emotional skills.

0:44In 20 years, robots will do maybe 1% of the plumbing.

0:48At most.

0:49Reed Hastings is the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, the company that helped define the streaming era.

0:56And in doing so, rewired how 2 billion people spend their evenings.