Jeff Dean, Google's head of AI, noted compounding events of the pandemic, George Floyd murder and wildfires have shown a lot of societal gaps worth pursuing.
Google's chief AI exec Jeff Dean gave a fireside chat with college students Tuesday, in which he urged them to pursue areas of study that effect society "collectively."
Dean said 2020 is an "unusual confluence of events" and thus shows holes in society students should consider pursuing. Dean is one of the few Google execs who've spoken out against U.S. policies as the company faces questions about its own role in society.'s top AI executive, Jeff Dean, told college students they should look to the events of 2020 for inspiration when deciding what they should pursue in their education and careers.
"2020 has been an incredibly challenging year with so many different things that are unusual or unexpected or very harmful from a society point of view and ecological point of view," Dean said in a virtualwith college students Tuesday. "You have the pandemic, which has completely changed how we're operating as societies, you have things like the George Floyd murder and the outrage justified from that.
"It's important to keep working to make society and the problems you care about better. It's important to solve problems that you think are important and that are going to advance all of us, collectively," he told students. "Try not to focus on the negative aspects of what's happening now and focus on the few positive things you see and build on those."
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