Reed Hastings is giving $50 million to his alma mater, liberal arts school Bowdoin College in Maine, to fund AI research and teaching within “ethical frameworks.” The $50 million gift from the Netflix co-founder and former CEO is the largest in the college’s 231-year history.

While attending Bowdoin College in the 1980s as an undergraduate student, a conversation with the late mathematics professor Steve Fisk convinced Reed Hastings, co-founder and chairman of Netflix (NFLX),

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,