Trying to keep up with AI developments can feel like a losing game, and Jeff Dean, who has spent the last three decades working on the new technology at Google, says Gen Z shouldn’t even try to master it all. Instead, his advice is simple: Skim widely and look for connections others might miss.
“I often tell students it’s better to skim 10 papers than to read one in detail because you then get 10 points in your cloud of what might be possible,” Dean said yesterday at the Asian American Scholar Forum’s 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium in his first public talk since leaving Google.
