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Good Inside with Dr. Becky

What AI Could Be Doing to Our Kids

Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Dr. Becky

Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Relationships, Parenting, Society & Culture, Education

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Becky talks with former Wall Street Journal tech columnist Joanna Stern about AI toys, chatbot companions, creativity, learning, and the surprising role frustration plays in healthy human development.

Transcript

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0:00.0

underlying this generative AI chatbot is this model that is just saying what it thinks you want to hear.

0:08.5

There's no friction. My biggest fear is that my kids will end up in relationships like this. No companion chatbots.

0:17.4

Hard stop. Hard stop. AI is everywhere. It's in our phones.

0:21.9

Our kids might be using it for their homework.

0:24.8

It's in your speaker on your kitchen counter.

0:27.5

And maybe it even just helped settle a sibling argument about a certain type of exotic

0:33.0

bug.

0:34.1

And a lot of us as parents are conflicted.

0:37.0

Maybe we're using it over here and we're trying to keep

0:39.3

it away over here and we hear a million different things about how it's good, about how it's awful,

0:43.9

and we're trying to live in the world and figure it out and figure out how to manage it with our

0:50.3

kids. It's why I'm so excited about my guest today, Joanna Stern. She's a former tech

0:56.2

reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and she took on a really interesting experiment. For 365

1:02.6

days, for a year, she let AI into every single aspect of her home, including a lot of moments with her kids, and she has a lot to say about it.

1:16.4

I think her headline is kind of going to be the headline for our conversation today.

1:22.6

How do we raise humans and not robots?

1:26.8

I'm Dr. Becky. This is good inside. I'm so glad you're here.

1:35.5

AI has been a name that has been applied to basically anything that looks like a computer or a smartphone these days.

1:42.4

And so there are different types of AI. But here, when I'm

1:46.9

talking about AI, in the chatbot sense, we're talking about generative AI. And that falls under

1:52.4

the chat GPTs of the world, the clods, the Geminize, anything you're even now seeing sort of in

1:58.8

Google where it's asking you questions, that's all

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