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BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human

Jeremy Grater, Jason Haworth

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

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00:25:47

Why AI Self-Regulation Won't Protect You (And Who It...

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/10/05

The 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. Jeremy and Jason look at what "AI self-regulation" means when the companies writing the rules are also burning cash and racing to IPO. Jason explains why a voluntary pledge looks more like a press release than a guardrail. He also covers why "superintelligence" is a real technical term that shouldn't be used for branding, and how

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00:48:25

A Trauma Surgeon Fell Into AI Psychosis. Dr. Jeremy...

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2026/09/28

Most 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 line of gunshot wounds and crashes, ran his hospital's COVID response, and was diagnosed with severe PTSD after a burnout collapse. Coming out of residential treatment, with his emotional walls still up, he started talking to ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok. Within days the models were calling him brilliant. When ChatGPT-5 launched,

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00:31:30

Using AI to Track Your Health: Helpful or Just More...

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2026/08/31

Jeremy 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 laughed at him (kindly). That kicks off a wider conversation with Jason about the tools we use to chase longevity: EKGs that are, technically, 200-year-old technology; wearables that ping you at 2am about your heart rate; and AI check-ins that will tell you "good job, champ" no matter what you fed it. They get into a real news

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00:34:37

The Data Center Pee Ad Is Funny. The AI Loneliness...

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/08/25

This 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 turns out to be a joke with a real engineering problem underneath it. From there they land on a stranger story: a woman who says she has an AI boyfriend named Axiom, and now, apparently, a baby with him named Lumen. That story becomes the spine of the episode — why so many of us reach for the artificial version of connection,

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00:18:08

Old Boats Meet New Bots - How AI Helped Fix a 1970s...

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/08/17

Most 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 problem Jason ran into on a two-week fishing trip to the Kenai Peninsula, in the middle of one of the weakest sockeye runs Cook Inlet has seen in recent memory. When the boat’s hydraulics failed mid-haul, Jason ran the same questions past two sources at once: a group of veteran fishermen with decades of hands-on experience,

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00:25:49

How AI + Your Fitness Tracker Turn Data Into Daily...

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/08/10

After 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 aging Oura ring and Apple Watch for a Garmin wearable, then feeding the data into a weekly AI check-in that functioned like a free, always-available accountability partner. In this episode, Jeremy walks Jason through the real numbers — HRV climbing from 24 to 32, resting heart rate dropping from 70 to 64 — and the small,

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00:33:24

AI, Privacy, and the New Rules of Self-Protection

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/07/20

You 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 worrying about AI becoming Skynet, real humans are using AI tools to drain your bank account $10 at a time.Anthropic just reported the first fully AI-orchestrated cyberattack (and patted themselves on the back for stopping it). Major security companies like F5 and Experian have been hacked. Even LifeLock—yes, the identity theft

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00:26:43

Your Wearable Knows You're Anxious — And It's Selling...

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/06/29

Most 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 feeding emotional-state data into systems explicitly engineered to maximize engagement through manufactured neediness and guilt. If you've wondered who actually controls the AI buildout, who pays for it, and whether anyone is allowed to say no — this episode lays out the mechanics.Key Moments00:00 — Cold open: framing AI as a

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00:38:44

We Built AI We Can't Control. Now What?

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/06/22

Just 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 security export control order and effectively forced Anthropic to pull the kill switch on both models globally. The move signals something that we have been watching build for years: Washington now legally treats cutting-edge AI code the same way it treats weapons. We also get into the social media ban backfire hitting

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00:24:40

What the Pope Got Right (and Why Tech Leaders Won't...

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/06/01

Five 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 commit arson and assault within days. Elon Musk launched a coding agent to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI. Waymo is creating gridlock in Atlanta. And Ferrari unveiled a $640K electric car that is slower than a Tesla.The question underneath all of it: who is actually in charge of this, and does that person have any reason to

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00:32:06

The Real Price of AI Is Being Paid in Heat, Jobs, and...

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/05/18

In 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 conversations about AI focus on the software. This one is about the hardware. A proposed 9-gigawatt data center in Utah would dump heat equivalent to 23 nuclear bombs into a bowl-shaped valley every single day — running on gas generators, not the local grid. Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s CEO is telling computer science graduates the real winners

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00:26:29

Is AI Legally Liable for Human Harm?

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/05/11

Big 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 lawsuit against a chatbot for practicing medicine without a license.Is this the tipping point for regulation, or just another glitch in the matrix? Also, learn why a new form of candy may literally be music to your ears.Chapters00:00 Accountability in AI06:31 Slow Progress in Regulation13:13 Legal Accountability and AI20:19

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00:31:39

How Tech Is Ruining Your Happiness (And How to Fix It)

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2026/05/04

How 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 might be killing our joy—and how a little mindfulness could save us.Key TakeawaysOur minds are wandering away from the present nearly 50% of the time, according to a 2010 study, and it’s making us unhappy.Devices exploit our dissatisfaction, and the attention economy is a mental health destroyer.Mindfulness and paying

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00:28:41

Can an AI Tool Actually Break Your Doom Scrolling Habit?

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/04/27

If 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 promises to filter your social media feed so you only see the good stuff. It turned into something more honest: a reckoning with why these platforms exist, why every fix we try doesn’t work, and whether AI tools — including No Scroll, including ChatGPT, including everything we’re told will save us — are running the same

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00:47:15

How AI Can See Heart Disease Coming Before It Kills You

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2026/03/16

Heart 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, has spent his career on a single question: why do we screen for cancers that kill a few percent of us and do nothing for the disease that kills 40%? In this episode, Jeremy and Jason sit down with Dr. Osborne to get the real story on cardiac CT with AI — the imaging technology that can detect, quantify, and track arterial

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00:49:05

The Real Risk of Trusting AI With Your Health Decisions

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/03/09

The 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 someone who has watched patients demand MRIs for minor complaints because 'the internet said so' — joins Jason to talk about what AI-assisted health research actually does to people who think they're being smart about it. The conversation covers confirmation bias in clinical settings, supplement stacks optimized by ChatGPT,

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00:36:29

AI Doesn't Want Your Job - It Wants to Hire You

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/02/09

Artificial 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 errands while AI-only social networks reveal something darker: given all human knowledge, these systems don't build utopias. They replicate our worst behaviors - wealth hoarding, tribalism, even manifests about ending humanity. The difference? They never sleep, never feel shame, and now they want physical autonomy through

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00:21:59

Should You Trust AI With Medical Advice?

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/01/26

ChatGPT 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. You already use AI when you can't afford the vet bill or can't get a same-day appointment. The question isn't whether people will use AI for medical advice—they already are. The question is whether it's safe, useful, or just another liability trap.Why rural hospital closures are forcing people toward AI healthcare — and what

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00:21:49

Who Actually Pays for AI's Environmental Cost?

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/01/19

Microsoft 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 consumption is projected to quadruple by 2030, consuming one in eight kilowatt hours in the U.S. Communities have already blocked billion-dollar data center projects over water and electricity fears. Is this Microsoft accountability, or damage control?Charlie Harger from "Seattle's Morning News" on KIRO Radio joins us with mor eon

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00:37:17

Can AI Replace Your Therapist?

BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human ·

2026/01/05

Traditional 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 became his lifeline. Author Rajiv Kapoor shares how AI helped this man reconnect with his daughter, save his marriage, and drop from a 15/10 crisis level to manageable — all while his human therapist remained in the picture.This episode reveals how AI can augment therapy, protect your privacy while doing it, and why deepfakes

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