How should a leader learn AI from a colleague with different experience?
Reverse mentoring works when you pick the mentor for demonstrated skill and willingness to teach, since being younger doesn't make anyone an AI expert. Set it up as a two-way exchange, and bring a real task to the first conversation.
It came up in the workplace culture panel as a way for leaders to keep learning. Before you make it part of a colleague's job, ask what support and time they'd need.
The person demonstrating can explain how they frame the assignment, test a result and notice a failure. You bring the business decision, the audience and what an error would cost. Both of you ask the basic questions. A good conversation makes the reasoning visible, and a demo built to impress someone senior won't.
Agree on one thing to try afterward. You might practice the task on your own and come back with questions. Your mentor might use the business context to get better at evaluating an output.
The mentor needs a workload that fits
Credit the teaching work, and keep the mentor from becoming unpaid support for everyone. If the arrangement is useful, decide how it fits their workload and development. Learning goes both directions, so make it clear who's responsible for it.