There's a lot of noise about what AI will do to jobs. Dr. Dana Suskind is asking a different question: what does it do to a kid? Dr. Suskind is a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon and neuroscientist who has spent her career on how young brains get built. In this conversation, she and Dr. Becky start with a piece of bait — can a parent be replaced by a machine? — and spend the next half hour on the science of why the answer is no. They get into attachment and why the messy, inconvenient, friction-filled version of connection is the version that actually wires a child's brain. Why a frictionless AI that always agrees with you might be the real risk. A rubric (DETECT) for judging any piece of kid-facing tech before it comes in the house. And the idea Dana calls the most freeing thing she learned writing her new book: good-enough parenting isn't a nice thing to say, it's a biological necessity. Thank you to our partners for making this episode possible: - Ole Henriksen: Use the code DRBECKY30 for 30% off the Banana Bright+ Eye Crème - Airbnb: Host your home or book your next stay on Airbnb - SmartyPants: Shop SmartyPants Vitamins at Target, Walmart, or Amazon today - Little Spoon: Get 50% off your first order at littlespoon.com/rattled with code RATTLED