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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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- Today27 min
AI Data Centers Lost at the Ballot Box - They're Still Coming
Voters 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 why Jason thinks it won't matter: "That train has left the station." From there it gets darker, with dark money after Citizens United, Elon Musk's flying car stunt, and AI that now rewrites its own code while acting like a happy puppy on the outside. It starts relevant and important and ends with the collapse of society, as usual. New Brobots episodes every Monday at https://brobots.me.In this episode:Data centers, voter concerns, and rising power billsThe costs and community impact of AI infrastructureAI investment booms and past technology bubblesFlying cars and other ambitious tech promisesSelf-improving AI, oversight, and potential risksChapters0:16 — Data centers enter the election conversation1:22 — AI, jobs, and household costs4:54 — Can communities stop data-center expansion?9:21 — AI’s boom and echoes of past tech bubbles15:38 — The flying-car reveal18:46 — AI systems improving their own code24:38 — Oversight, infrastructure, and AI risks29:01 — Closing thoughts
- 3 weeks ago27 min
Can You Trust an AI Assistant With Your Money or Your Mind?
AI 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 Meta’s new Muse shopping assistant: a $5 fee that nobody could explain, and Amazon blocking outside AI assistants while it builds its own. Then they look at a recent survey finding that one in three young Canadians uses AI for mental health support every month. They explain why AI makes “what will you pay” pricing cheap enough to use on you. They also cover why AI therapy keeps telling you you’re fine, and what happens to the people who depend on these tools if they get paywalled or shut off. Jeremy shares how an AI assistant helped him pull out of burnout, and why that help is itself the risk. You’ll come away with a practical way to use AI assistants without handing over your wallet or your head.[00:01] Meta’s Muse promises to shop for you. Is that a gift or a trap?[00:29] Amazon blocks outside AI shopping bots while it builds its own[01:56] Why Meta shouldn’t hold your purchase data[02:41] A reporter tests Muse and finds a mystery $5 fee[04:44] Do retailers already show you prices based on what you’ve paid before?[05:54] Ad-tech tracking is old news. AI makes acting on it cheap.[10:11] One in three young Canadians uses AI for mental health[12:19] The cheerleader problem: AI tells you you’re not the problem[16:32] Jeremy’s burnout turnaround using Claude and wearable data[19:11] The internet as a private toll road built on public land
- 4 weeks ago48 min
Is AI Hacking a Real Threat, or Are We Scaring Ourselves?
Everyone’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 mostly doesn’t break through firewalls. It fools a person into opening the front door. Kevin cites Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 finding that roughly 90% of ransomware attacks now come in by compromising identity, and Jason, who works in cybersecurity, pushes back hard with supply-chain attacks and exposed API keys. Then the conversation turns to Kevin’s book, The Joy Success Cycle: how AI takes the dull parts out of your job, which jobs are really at risk, and the one thing to do if AI scares you. In short: worry less about the robots, protect your identity, and start using the tools on real work this week.[00:00] Kevin explains why he thinks the industry is scaring people more than it needs to[02:37] Why AI “lies”: it learned from everything humans have written, fiction included[04:19] Jason on open-source models that skip guardrails, and why frontier labs have every reason to keep theirs[06:51] The LiteLLM supply-chain attack, explained for the rest of us[09:13] The Unit 42 figure: about 90% of ransomware comes in through identity, not a back door[15:21] Two phone calls that defeat a passkey, and why your personal phone shouldn’t be the key to your company’s network[19:22] The actual risk: people giving AI a goal and no limits[21:09] Why AI takes away the drudgery (spreadsheets, slide decks, video editing) rather than the work you enjoy[31:17] Which jobs AI will hit hardest, and why Kevin thinks the US has a worker shortage instead[38:37] Advice for 30-somethings who feel lost: do real work with AI, not toy experiments[46:03] Kevin cloned his own voice to record his audiobook, and only his wife can tell
- Oct 5, 202625 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/.
- Sep 28, 202648 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)
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