Dr. Dana Suskind

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ReThinking · Why a chatbot can’t raise your kid with Dana Suskind · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, so what does it mean to be human raised?

Human raised isn't a rejection or an embrace of tech.

It's really understanding what do children need to develop fully as humans, fully from a cognitive standpoint, all those things that we've been optimizing forever, but also those important soft skills.

How do we raise children so they can have critical thinking, be empathetic?

Connect all of those skills that you're going to need to have in the age of AI.

And really, it's through human presence and human connection.

You see, when you're born, human babies are born incredibly underdeveloped.

They're like little helpless blobs.

And that's why parenting is so incredibly hard.

But that helplessness is actually the origins of our brilliance, because our babies are born too early.

In those early years, the brain is built.

85% of the physical brain is built.

And it is literally built by human interaction, talking, nurturing, joint attention, physical touch.

That is building that brain.

And based on those early years, that predicts not just how people do in the workforce, how they do intellectually, how they relate to others.

Those early years are critical.

Yeah.

I I'll tell you, it w it is exactly because I'm a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon that I'm so

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