Dr. Dana Suskind

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

Children are being exposed to it in a significant way.

So it's not quite the generative AI that we're talking about, but slowly that's going to be embedded into these screen times.

But even beyond that, I mean, you go to Walmart or Target and on the shelves are these plush animals that are embedded with LLMs.

They're embedded with those chatbots that that we're talking about.

They look more like teddy bears than actual.

AI agents.

So they are slipping in, but

To your point, my concern is that we'll sort of sleepwalk into it.

It won't be like, oh, all of a sudden children are being raised by robots.

It will be, you know, a slow sort of march to to having some of that human presence being taken over by technology.

The way I view it is this AI is this miraculous technology.

We need to be thinking creatively how AI can allow more human presence to allow more human connection.

You're exactly right.

I mean, parenting is hard.

And you can imagine an overly stretched parent turning over an iPad.

I mean, certainly my kids did watch some baby Einstein, I must admit.

But the truth is that if we're going to really leverage this incredible technology, why don't we leverage it in ways that take off the burden, you know, the administrative burdens or the invisible labor of parenting?

Why don't we leverage it to a

Allow more human presence rather than saying, oh, well, you know, isn't a generative AI interactive robot better than an iPad, which is how it's been sold at some times.

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