Lavin Voices
Conversations with the world’s top voices—curated by The Lavin Agency. Pulitzer Prize winners, bestselling authors, C-suite executives, and visionary entrepreneurs share the big ideas shaping business, culture, and society.
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Dana Suskind: The HOPE Framework Parents Need to Raise Kids in the Age of AI (opens the original)
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"A human-raised childhood is the best way to get your child ready for a high-tech future." This week on Lavin Voices, we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Dr. Dana Suskind: pediatric surgeon, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, and New York Times bestselling author of Thirty Million Words , Parent Nation , and Human Raised . Dana has spent her career studying how human interaction shapes developing brains—and now she’s asking what happens when AI begins entering those
Jay Van Bavel: We're Polarized. The "Power of Us" Can Bring Us Back Together Again (opens the original)
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What if the same group thinking that divides us could also help bring us together? In the age of sycophantic AI and social media polarization, one psychologist is showing how shared identity can strengthen trust, cooperation, and connection, online and in the real world. This week on Lavin Voices, we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Jay Van Bavel, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University and award-winning co-author of The Power of Us. Jay studies how group identity shapes
Carissa Véliz: Are AI "Prophecies" Dictating Your Future? (opens the original)
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We use AI predictions every day: from the weather app to Instagram algorithms to business tools. But these predictions don’t just describe the future, says Carissa Véliz. They're actively creating it—and the people making them may have more power over your life than you realize. This week on Lavin Voices , we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Carissa Véliz , Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford and author of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, an
George Newman: How Great Ideas Happen—The Small Steps to Big Ideas (opens the original)
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We think of creativity as a magical gift reserved for geniuses. But George Newman says it's actually a simple, repeatable process that's more like archaeology than magic. And the best part is that anyone can learn it. This week on Lavin Voices, we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker George Newman, a cognitive scientist, Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and author of How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough
Jelani Cobb: A Historian’s “Notes on How We Got Here.” The Last 10 Years in America (opens the original)
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America is now 250 years old. How did we get here—and where are we going next? This week on Lavin Voices, we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Jelani Cobb: Peabody Award-winning journalist, Dean of Columbia Journalism School, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and author of Three or More Is a Riot. Jelani has spent his career helping audiences understand the forces shaping American democracy—from misinformation and media distrust to race, class, policing, voting rights, and the long struggle
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