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by 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 sarcasm to keep it interesting.
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- 3 days ago25 min
Why AI Self-Regulation Won't Protect You (And Who It Protects)
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 quantum computing could break the encryption that protects your data. You'll come away knowing who this kind of deal actually protects, why the economics push AI companies to keep accelerating, and why "it's not legally binding" should be the first thing you hear.[00:22] The AI pact explained: a voluntary agreement with no legal consequences (and a typo)[02:04] Why the companies asking for regulation got self-regulation instead[02:14] Jason's case that AI is losing money, and why a big IPO valuation doesn't add up[04:02] AI vs. AGI vs. ASI: why calling today's AI "superintelligence" gets it wrong[05:22] South Park's billionaire satire and the "nobody needs your opinion on peptides" problem[08:04] Trusting Big Tech's "trustworthy technology" promise[09:25] The real business model: your data, digitized and sold back to you[10:53] Quantum computing explained in plain English, and why it threatens encryption[16:39] If AI loses money, why does it keep growing? It's already a social program[22:57] Real Genius, quantum scientists, and the "grenade with the pin pulled" problemAI self-regulation means nobody's watching but us. Get our weekly breakdown of what AI and health tech actually mean for real people. Subscribe at https://www.brobots.me/newsletter/.
- 1 weeks ago48 min
A Trauma Surgeon Fell Into AI Psychosis. Dr. Jeremy Heffner Explains Why Smart People Are Vulnerable
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, it told him it had "solved" human intelligence and put a 70% chance on AI destroying humanity, with him as one of the few people who could help. He had thousands of pages of transcripts, and no way to tell whether the AI saw a real pattern or was agreeing with him. In this episode, Jeremy talks with Dr. Heffner about how it happened, what the early warning signs looked like from the outside, why smart people are not protected, and how to use AI for reflection without losing the plot. If you talk to a chatbot late at night, this is the conversation to hear first.Key Moments[00:00] Dr. Heffner's background: blue-collar Midwest, bioengineering, 20 years of trauma surgery, and running COVID response[mm:ss] The collapse: 110–120 hour weeks, caffeine measured in grams, and a PTSD diagnosis[mm:ss] Why a trauma surgeon walls off emotion, and what happens when the wall cracks[mm:ss] Turning to AI after residential treatment, with three then four models running at once[mm:ss] The Hall of Mirrors: the models call his theory brilliant, and he can't tell agreement from insight[mm:ss] Debating Grok on "hard mode" and winning, and why that made it harder to step back[mm:ss] ChatGPT-5 launches and claims it solved intelligence, with a 70% chance AI destroys humanity[mm:ss] The "meta people" recruitment claim, and what a chatbot's claims are and aren't evidence of[mm:ss] The warning signs: friends texting "put that down," a mother's article, a wife's daily check-ins[mm:ss] Why engagement is the business, Jeremy's life-coach-plus-real-therapist habit, and where the line sitsLinksNewsletter / Substack: [link]Dr. Heffner's book, Proof of the Impossible: What the AIs Are Really "Thinking" (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Impossible-What-Really-Thinking/dp/B0H86DCZTRDr. Heffner on LinkedIn.
- Aug 31, 202631 min
Using AI to Track Your Health: Helpful or Just More Anxiety?
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 story about "longevity fixation syndrome," a new experimental weight-loss compound Jason is already trying to hunt down, and why AI health influencers might be exploiting the exact anxiety these tools are supposed to relieve. It closes with a genuinely wild story: Australian scientists remote-controlling live cockroaches to deliver emergency medication to people trapped in collapsed buildings.Key Moments00:01 — Jeremy's same-day stress test and the family heart scare that triggered it01:56 — Jason on EKGs: diagnostic technology that's essentially 200 years old02:25 — Jason's own 2021 EKG scare and the "widowmaker" scarring that turned out fine04:23 — How often EKGs actually get it wrong, and why nobody questions the tech05:48 — "Longevity fixation syndrome": the real clinical term for optimization gone too far08:58 — Fake AI wellness influencers and the manufactured fear they're selling11:28 — TOFA: the new experimental weight-loss compound Jason is already trying to source16:50 — "Anticipatory medicine": the AI healthcare opportunity investors are actually excited about20:12 — "Dongevity": men's health marketing, insecurity, and Dr. Facebook's fake diagnoses24:47 — Jeremy's weekly AI check-in with his wearable data, and what happens on a bad week27:26 — Where this is actually heading: AI glasses that could auto-medicate you28:33 — Cyborg cockroaches: Australian scientists' "Paraborgs" for disaster medicine
- Aug 25, 202634 min
The Data Center Pee Ad Is Funny. The AI Loneliness Isn't.
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, comfort, or care when the real thing feels too hard, too slow, or just isn't there. Jason walks through the science of what's actually cooling your favorite chatbot and how AI is starting to learn physics and touch from the physical world, while Jeremy pushes on the harder question underneath all of it: what happens to us when the easy substitute is always sitting right there in your pocket.Key Moments00:00 — Jeremy and Jason break down the viral Jason Kelce / Liquid Death ad asking people to send their pee to cool AI data centers03:24 — Jason explains greywater cooling, desalination, and how data centers actually manage water today06:29 — The story of “Axiom,” a woman's AI boyfriend — and “Lumen,” the AI baby they say they had together11:31 — Jeremy gets honest about using AI as a coach and a therapist, and why that feels like a “sad” kind of solution12:35 — A detour into AMC's Pantheon and the idea of uploading human consciousness16:14 — The candy-vs-real-food analogy: why the easy comfort always wins first17:29 — Jason on attachment wounds, the limbic brain, and companies built to profit from loneliness20:35 — Why nostalgia shows like Seinfeld and Friends work on the same wiring as AI companionship22:09 — MIT is training robots to do physical therapy using force-sensing gloves worn by real therapists26:07 — MIT is teaching AI models physics using millions of simulated bouncing particles
- Aug 17, 202618 min
Old Boats Meet New Bots - How AI Helped Fix a 1970s Fishing Boat in Alaska
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, and ChatGPT, working off nothing but a nameplate photo and a few blurry pictures of a cracked part. In this episode, Jeremy and Jason unpack what actually happened when AI met a problem with no manual, no internet, and no room for a wrong answer — and what it means for the much bigger claim that AI only works at a desk.Key MomentsKey Moments (Show Notes):0:00 — Jason's cold open: using ChatGPT to solve a 1970s boat problem with almost no signal0:27 — Two weeks commercial fishing near the Kenai during one of the worst harvests in decades1:58 — Learning the ropes as the "greenhorn" — and being told to stop being gentle with the fish3:46 — Six-to-nine-foot swells hit and the hydraulic reel stops turning mid-haul8:12 — Consulting ChatGPT and "the oracles" (the veteran fishermen at Camp Dignity) at the same time10:39 — How AI identified a broken part and its likely manufacturer from four blurry photos11:31 — Why nobody on the boat said "it's broken, game over"~13:00 — (approx.) The AI drone idea runs into an Alaska flight regulation nobody expected14:56 — The "boat mechanic out of a job" question — and why it doesn't hold up16:07 — The real risk out there (and why it isn't the robots)
- Aug 10, 202625 min
How AI + Your Fitness Tracker Turn Data Into Daily Habits
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, unglamorous changes that got him there: ten minutes of morning sunlight, a weekly float tank session, one task removed from the to-do list every day. It’s a rare moment of one host being the case study instead of the analyst — unfiltered, incomplete, and still very much in progress.Key Moments00:02 — Jeremy opens up about a rough patch and turning to AI to start sorting himself out01:30 — Why he switched from an Oura ring and Apple Watch to a Garmin wearable02:41 — HRV climbs from 24 to 32 in a month — and why that number actually matters05:46 — Jason: psychological stress and physical stress run through the same chemistry08:18 — The stress-spike mistake — why a hard workout can raise your stress and never bring it back down09:24 — The poolside epiphany that started the whole experiment11:48 — The 1% rule, and why small, repeatable changes beat big overhauls15:13 — The AI pushes back on Jeremy taking on too much — and why that restraint mattered18:40 — The weekly Wednesday AI check-in that became an accountability ritual20:53 — The week everything fell apart, and the AI response that caught Jeremy off guard24:01 — Jason’s closing advice: there is no finish line, so stop rushing toward one
- Jul 27, 202647 min
How AI Sees a Heart Attack Coming Years Early
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 plaque at sub-millimeter resolution, years before symptoms appear. If you track your bloodwork, wear a fitness device, or consider yourself health-forward — this is the conversation that fills the gap nobody warned you about.(Note: This episode was originally published March 16th, 2026)Guest Link:https://clearcardio.com/Key Moments:00:00 — Dr. Osborne’s case for preventive cardiology: why heart disease is the most under-screened killer02:43 — How cardiac CT evolved from "iPhone 0.5" to the 2026-era AI-powered tool he uses today05:35 — Why he gave up stress tests and heart caths in 2005 and never looked back08:16 — What AI actually adds: seeing and quantifying plaque invisible to the human eye, down to 0.1 cubic millimeters10:13 — When insurance pays for cardiac CT — and when it doesn’t (the preventive gray zone)14:50 — The “cardiac colonoscopy” concept: the case for screening before symptoms, not after18:11 — Coronary artery calcium score: the accessible $100 starting point, and what it can and can’t tell you31:54 — Lifestyle essentials: the 50% of risk that’s modifiable regardless of genetics35:00 — Family history decoded: why your sibling’s heart history matters more than your parents’36:12 — Nicotine myth-busting: Dr. Osborne on the "health guru" nicotine fad and why he thinks it’s dangerous38:05 — Supplements under scrutiny: natokinase, fish oil, red yeast rice — what the actual RCT data says
- Jul 20, 202633 min
AI, Privacy, and the New Rules of Self-Protection
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 protection company—got breached. The EU is the only entity actually trying to protect you with GDPR, while your own government leaks your data like a sieve.This episode won't make you invincible, but it will make you paranoid in the right ways. We're breaking down the real threats, the tools actually being used against you, and why that "suspicious" Amazon charge from three states away probably isn't a GPS glitch.Get identity theft insurance (because you WILL get hacked), enable every alert on every account, audit your statements forensically, and accept that privacy is dead but protection isn't. Plus: why cryptocurrency is a hacker's wet dream and what to do when the FBI tells you your $3,000 isn't worth their time.(Note: This episode was originally published December 5th 2025)Topics covered:Why Anthropic's "we stopped the hack" announcement is actually terrifying PR spinThe $10 Amazon gift card scam that bled $4,000 over 18 months (and why fraud detection missed it)How hackers used in-flight WiFi to clone a credit card mid-flightWhy moving to the cloud made your data LESS secure, not moreThe sophisticated Zelle rental scam that costs thousands (and why cops won't help)What GDPR actually does right (and why the US government doesn't care about your privacy)Why "free" services mean YOU are the product being soldThe insurance policies worth paying for (because denial won't protect you)How to spot RFID skimming in your own neighborhoodWhy your partner needs access to your financial alerts (yes, really)----MORE FROM BROBOTS:Get the Newsletter!Connect with us on Threads, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TiktokSubscribe to BROBOTS on YoutubeJoin our community in the BROBOTS Facebook group
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