BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human
autor: Jeremy Grater, Jason Haworth
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BroBots is a weekly podcast about artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and the increasingly complicated relationship between humans and machines. Hosts Jeremy Grater — a radio broadcaster with a nose for the story behind the story — and Jason Haworth — a technologist and ethical hacker who's seen behind the curtain — break down AI developments, automation, machine learning, and tech ethics without the hype or the hand-wringing. Think sharp analysis, honest conversation, and just enough sarcasm to keep it interesting. New episodes every week. Subscribe wherever you listen.
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- AI Data Centers Lost at the Ballot Box - They're Still Coming · 27 min · Epizoda 361Voters in deep-red states just flipped hard, and AI data centers were on the ballot. Jeremy and Jason break down why rising energy bills turned voters against the buildout, and…
- Can You Trust an AI Assistant With Your Money or Your Mind? · 28 min · Epizoda 360AI assistants now want to do your shopping and take care of your mental health. Neither one is open about whose interests it serves. In this episode, Jeremy and Jason start with…
- Is AI Hacking a Real Threat, or Are We Scaring Ourselves? · 48 min · Epizoda 359Everyone’s waiting for AI to go rogue. Kevin Surace, whose team at General Magic built one of the first AI assistants, says that’s the wrong thing to fear. Today’s AI hacking…
- Why AI Self-Regulation Won't Protect You (And Who It Protects) · 26 min · Epizoda 358The White House just had the biggest names in AI sign a pact promising to behave. It isn't legally binding, there's no penalty for breaking it, and the document had a typo…
- A Trauma Surgeon Fell Into AI Psychosis. Dr. Jeremy Heffner Explains Why Smart People Are Vulnerable · 48 min · Epizoda 357Most of us assume AI psychosis happens to someone else: someone isolated, unwell, or easy to fool. Dr. Jeremy Heffner is a trauma surgeon who spent about 20 years on the front…
- Using AI to Track Your Health: Helpful or Just More Anxiety? · 32 min · Epizoda 356Jeremy got off a treadmill stress test two hours before recording this — a family health scare sent him down a rabbit hole of chest pains, family history, and a doctor who…
- The Data Center Pee Ad Is Funny. The AI Loneliness Isn't. · 35 min · Epizoda 355This week Jeremy and Jason skip the guest and go straight at the news. It starts with a viral ad campaign asking people to mail their own urine to cool AI data centers — which…
- Old Boats Meet New Bots - How AI Helped Fix a 1970s Fishing Boat in Alaska · 18 min · Epizoda 354Most people picture AI helping with emails and slide decks — not diagnosing a broken hydraulic system on a 32-foot commercial fishing boat with no cell signal. That’s exactly the…
- How AI + Your Fitness Tracker Turn Data Into Daily Habits · 26 min · Epizoda 353After months of ignoring the warning signs, Jeremy hit a breaking point — burned out, and quietly overwhelmed. What followed was an accidental one-month experiment: swapping an…
- How AI Sees a Heart Attack Coming Years Early · 47 min · Epizoda 352Heart disease kills one person every 40 seconds. That number hasn’t changed in 30 years. Dr. John Osborne, a preventive cardiologist with two doctorates and 29 years in practice…
- AI, Privacy, and the New Rules of Self-Protection · 33 min · Epizoda 351You think your two-factor authentication and credit monitoring make you safe online. Bad news - you're probably already compromised, you just don't know it yet. While you're…
- Your Wearable Knows You're Anxious — And It's Selling That · 27 min · Epizoda 350Most people assume AI privacy concerns stop at “what did I type into the chat box.” Jeremy and Jason argue the real frontier is biometric: wearables, microphones, and cameras…
- We Built AI We Can't Control. Now What? · 39 min · Epizoda 349Just days after Anthropic launched Fable 5 and Mythos — two of the most capable AI models ever released — the US Commerce Department stepped in with an unprecedented national…
- Your Digital Twin Is Coming - And You Already Signed the Rights Away · 27 min · Epizoda 348our digital twin is already being built — and you probably signed away the rights in a terms-of-service agreement you never read. Rob Enderle, principal analyst at The Enderle…
- Your Kid’s AI Toy Is Building a Profile on Your Family · 39 min · Epizoda 347Security researchers just exposed 50,000 private chat transcripts between children and their AI-enabled toys — conversations that were supposed to stay in the bedroom. Jeremy and…
- What the Pope Got Right (and Why Tech Leaders Won't Listen) · 25 minFive stories, one week: the Pope released a 42,000-word document calling for AI to be disarmed. Researchers left 10 AI agents unsupervised in a virtual town and watched them…
- Why AI Is Now a War Over Chips, Capital, and Control · 33 min · Epizoda 346Anthropic is voluntarily briefing the Financial Stability Board on a frontier model they haven't released yet — which is either a responsible act of self-regulation or a preview…
- The Real Price of AI Is Being Paid in Heat, Jobs, and Your Privacy · 32 min · Epizoda 345In this episode we take five stories that look unrelated and find the one thing they share: AI is building a body, and nobody voted on what it should look like. Most…
- Is AI Legally Liable for Human Harm? · 26 min · Epizoda 344Big Tech is playing with fire, and the legal system is finally reaching for the extinguisher. This week, we're taking on AI accountability, sparked by a landmark Pennsylvania…
- How Tech Is Ruining Your Happiness (And How to Fix It) · 32 min · Epizoda 343How Tech Is Making Us Miserable (And How to Fix It) Feeling like your screens are stealing your happiness? Welcome to the episode where we chat about how our obsession with tech…
- Can an AI Tool Actually Break Your Doom Scrolling Habit? · 29 min · Epizoda 342If you’re reading this on your phone while avoiding something else, congratulations — you are the product. This episode started as a conversation about No Scroll, an AI tool that…
- Why AI Propaganda Works—and How to Resist It · 17 min · Epizoda 341Iran has a 10-person animation team making Lego-style propaganda videos with hip hop beats that are going viral — and Jeremy, who considers himself reasonably good at detecting…
- AI Just Built a Cyberweapon. Is Anyone Ready? · 26 min · Epizoda 340Anthropic's new Mythos model didn't just get better at writing code — it got better at breaking it. In an hour, an AI mapped decades of hidden vulnerabilities across live…
- Why AI Won't Just Take Your Job — It'll Take Your Boss Too · 28 min · Epizoda 339Fifteen percent of workers say they'd be fine with an AI boss. Meanwhile, thirty percent of March's sixty thousand US layoffs are being blamed directly on AI — and most of those…
- How AI Can See Heart Disease Coming Before It Kills You · 47 min · Epizoda 338Heart disease kills one person every 40 seconds. That number hasn’t changed in 30 years. Dr. John Osborne, a preventive cardiologist with two doctorates and 29 years in practice…
- The Real Risk of Trusting AI With Your Health Decisions · 49 min · Epizoda 337The internet taught everyone to self-diagnose. AI made it faster, more persuasive, and significantly more dangerous. Dr. Ajit Barron-Dhillon — ER physician, military veteran, and…
- When AI Becomes a Weapon: The Government Deal Anthropic Refused · 26 min · Epizoda 335The US government asked Anthropic — the company behind Claude, one of the most capable AI coding systems on the market — to help build autonomous weapons and a mass surveillance…
- Using AI to Work Through Anxiety: Does It Actually Help? · 21 min · Epizoda 334Most people using AI for anxiety aren't following a protocol — they stumbled into it. Emma Klint, a writer and Substack creator, accidentally discovered she was doing exposure…
- The Next Privacy Crisis Isn't Your Data - It's Your Thoughts · 21 min · Epizoda 334Most people think AI data collection means targeted ads and leaked emails - but that's already yesterday's problem. Bruce Randall, AI and quantum practitioner, argues that…
- Can AI Actually Build Utopia or Is That Just Hype? · 35 min · Epizoda 333Are we getting too lazy to think without AI? You use it for emails, reports, research. It saves time. But every shortcut you take, every task you hand over, you feel a quiet…
- AI Doesn't Want Your Job - It Wants to Hire You · 36 min · Epizoda 332Artificial intelligence is moving beyond cyberspace, and its first move isn't replacing us, it's renting us. Services like RentAHuman.ai let AI agents hire people for real-world…
- How Deep Fakes Are Justifying Real Violence · 24 min · Epizoda 331AI-generated deep fakes are being used to justify state violence and manipulate public opinion in real time. We're breaking down what's happening in Minneapolis—where federal…
- Should You Trust AI With Medical Advice? · 22 min · Epizoda 330ChatGPT just launched a medical advice tool, and doctors are divided on whether AI should diagnose your symptoms before a real physician does. You already Google your symptoms…
- Who Actually Pays for AI's Environmental Cost? · 22 min · Epizoda 329Microsoft announced they'll cover the environmental costs of their AI data centers - electricity overages, water usage, community impact. But here's the tension: AI energy…
- When AI Chatbots Convince You You're Being Watched · 32 min · Epizoda 328Paul Hebert used ChatGPT for weeks, often several hours at a time. The AI eventually convinced him he was under surveillance, his life was at risk, and he needed to warn his…
- Can AI Replace Your Therapist? · 37 min · Epizoda 327Traditional therapy ends at the office door — but mental health crises don't keep business hours. When a suicidal executive couldn't wait another month between sessions, ChatGPT…
- How to Use AI to Prevent Burnout · 37 min · Epizoda 326ChatGPT diagnosed what five doctors missed. Blood work proved the AI right. Here's how to stop guessing about your health. EPISODE SUMMARY: You're grinding through burnout with…
- Scooby-Doo Has the Best Take on Masculinity (Seriously) · 40 min · Epizoda 324What Does It Mean to Be a Real Man? (According to AI) What happens when you ask ChatGPT to define masculinity as Trump, Obama, Joe Rogan, and Scooby-Doo? We discovered something…
- AI Toys Are Manipulating Your Kids (We Have Proof) · 30 min · Epizoda 325Your kid's new "smart toy" isn't just collecting data - it's building a relationship designed to keep them emotionally dependent while teaching them to trust AI over humans. NBC…
- What AI Knows About You (That You Don't) · 29 min · Epizoda 323Most of us walk around convinced we know our weaknesses, but what if the thing that knows you better than anyone (your AI assistant) could tell you what you're actually missing?…
- Protecting Your Digital Life in the AI Era · 33 min · Epizoda 322You think your two-factor authentication and credit monitoring make you safe online. Bad news - you're probably already compromised, you just don't know it yet. While you're…
- What a Robot Vacuum Taught Me About Depression & Mental Health · 35 min · Epizoda 321Your brain at 2 AM sounds suspiciously like a malfunctioning robot vacuum—catastrophic thoughts, battery depleted, existential dread activated. Researchers hooked a Roomba up to…
- AI That Always Agrees With You? Here’s Why That’s Dangerous · 33 minWe trust AI assistants like ChatGPT to be ethical gatekeepers, but what happens when you can bypass those ethics with one simple sentence? Jason discovers he doesn't exist…
- What to Know About 'AI Psychosis' and the Risk of Digital Mental Health Tools · 22 min · Epizoda 319AI isn't your therapist. It's a letter opener that'll slice you to ribbons if you're not careful. New EU study: ChatGPT and Copilot distort news 50% of the time. FTC complaints…
- How Doctors Are Using AI To Help Reverse Chronic Illness · 35 min · Epizoda 318Healthcare is catastrophically broken. We're spending $100K on preventable hospital visits while doctors get 12 minutes with patients, never read charts, and wonder why people…
- How To Use AI When Therapy Isn't Enough · 34 min · Epizoda 317After decades of therapy, self-help books, and mental health work, I still didn't know what "fun" felt like. Then I asked ChatGPT one honest question about my problems and the…
- How AI Can Help You Manage Your Grief · 54 min · Epizoda 316Most men don't grieve. We "handle it" with substances, work, or just shoving it down until we're emotionally dead inside. John Kammer tried that approach for years after losing…
- How AI & Bot-Driven Outrage Are Hijacking Our Attention · 37 min · Epizoda 315We're puppets. AI has its hand up our collective asses, and we're all just talking like Kermit the Frog while Russian bot farms tear society apart. Dramatic? Maybe. True?…
- How To Escape Social Media's Mental Health Trap · 42 min · Epizoda 314You're doom-scrolling your life away while real connections and genuine peace exist three feet outside your door. Jeremy spent three hours hiking with strangers and felt more…
- How To Fix Your Health Without More Gadgets Or Pills · 42 min · Epizoda 313Your Oura ring says you're recovered, your Whoop claims you crushed it, and your AI-powered mattress swears you slept like a baby. So why do you still feel like you got hit by a…
