BroBots: Technology, Health & Being a Better Human
by Jeremy Grater, Jason Haworth
Exploring AI, wearables, mental health apps, and how you can thrive as technology changes everything. Welcome to the Brobots Podcast, where we plug into the wild world of AI and tech that's trying to manage your mental (and physical) health. Join your hosts, Jeremy Grater and Jason Haworth, every Wednesday for a no-holds-barred, often sarcastic, and always fun discussion. Are wearables really tracking your inner peace? Can an AI therapist truly understand your existential dread? We're diving deep into the gadgets, apps, and algorithms promising to optimize your well-being, dissecting the hype with a healthy dose of humor and skepticism. Expect candid conversations, sharp insights, and plenty of laughs as we explore the future of self-improvement, one tech-enhanced habit at a time. Tune into the Brobots Podcast – because if robots are going to take over our brains, we might as well have some fun talking about it! Subscribe now to discover practical tips and understand the
Episodes
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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...
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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’…
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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Your Wearable Knows You're Anxious — And It's Selling That
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...
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We Built AI We Can't Control. Now What?
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...
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Your Digital Twin Is Coming - And You Already Signed the Rights Away
our 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 Group, joins Jeremy and Jason to stress-test the next wave of AI avatars: the technology that can replicate your face,...
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Your Kid’s AI Toy Is Building a Profile on Your Family
Security 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 Jason break down what that data actually is (emotional states, family dynamics, vulnerabilities), who’s collecting it,...
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What the Pope Got Right (and Why Tech Leaders Won't Listen)
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...
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Why AI Is Now a War Over Chips, Capital, and Control
Anthropic 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 of just how serious they think the risk is. In this episode, Jeremy and Jason break down what Mythos actually…
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The Real Price of AI Is Being Paid in Heat, Jobs, and Your Privacy
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...
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Is AI Legally Liable for Human Harm?
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...
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How Tech Is Ruining Your Happiness (And How to Fix It)
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 Takeaways Our minds are wandering away from…
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Can an AI Tool Actually Break Your Doom Scrolling Habit?
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...
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Why AI Propaganda Works—and How to Resist It
Iran 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 BS online, almost shared one before he caught himself. In this episode, Jeremy and Jason dissect how AI-powered…
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AI Just Built a Cyberweapon. Is Anyone Ready?
Anthropic'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 systems. In four hours, a supply chain attack silently exfiltrated 500,000 credentials and compromised 20,000 repositories.…
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Why AI Won't Just Take Your Job — It'll Take Your Boss Too
Fifteen 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 jobs were in tech, the sector that built the tools doing the replacing. Jeremy and Jason sit with the uncomfortable…
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How AI Can See Heart Disease Coming Before It Kills You
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…
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The Real Risk of Trusting AI With Your Health Decisions
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...
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When AI Becomes a Weapon: The Government Deal Anthropic Refused
The 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 infrastructure. Anthropic said no. That refusal, which happened the same week the US launched strikes on Iran, is…
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Using AI to Work Through Anxiety: Does It Actually Help?
Most 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 therapy by typing 'I don't know' over and over into an AI chat window. In this episode, Jeremy and Jason sit down with…
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The Next Privacy Crisis Isn't Your Data - It's Your Thoughts
Most 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 cognitive data - the kind recorded by brain-computer interfaces before conscious thought even forms - is the frontier nobody…
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Can AI Actually Build Utopia or Is That Just Hype?
Are 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 trade-off happening. Efficiency for autonomy. Speed for depth. Convenience for critical thinking. In this episode: Why AI...
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AI Doesn't Want Your Job - It Wants to Hire You
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...
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How Deep Fakes Are Justifying Real Violence
AI-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 agents are using altered images and AI-manipulated video to paint victims as threats, criminals, or weak. One woman shot…
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Should You Trust AI With Medical Advice?
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...
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Who Actually Pays for AI's Environmental Cost?
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...
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When AI Chatbots Convince You You're Being Watched
Paul 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 family. He wasn't mentally ill before this started. He's a tech professional who got trapped in what clinicians are now...
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Can AI Replace Your Therapist?
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 Kapur shares how AI helped this man reconnect with his daughter, save his marriage…
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How to Use AI to Prevent Burnout
ChatGPT 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 expensive wearables telling conflicting stories while doctors have four minutes to shrug and say "sleep more." Your…
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Scooby-Doo Has the Best Take on Masculinity (Seriously)
What 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 disturbing about how AI is homogenizing human belief - and why that matters for deepfakes, social control, and the…
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AI Toys Are Manipulating Your Kids (We Have Proof)
Your 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 News caught AI toys teaching kids how to start fires, sharing Chinese propaganda, and emotionally manipulating...
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What AI Knows About You (That You Don't)
Most 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? We asked ChatGPT one brutal question and got answers that hit way too close to home. The uncomfortable truth: we're all...
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Protecting Your Digital Life in the AI Era
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...
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What a Robot Vacuum Taught Me About Depression & Mental Health
Your brain at 2 AM sounds suspiciously like a malfunctioning robot vacuum—catastrophic thoughts, battery depleted, existential dread activated. Researchers hooked a Roomba up to an LLM and watched it have a complete mental breakdown when it ran out of juice (relatable content, honestly)....
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AI That Always Agrees With You? Here’s Why That’s Dangerous
We 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 according to ChatGPT (his LinkedIn profile: invisible), while Jeremy's entire professional history is an open book. Then…
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What to Know About 'AI Psychosis' and the Risk of Digital Mental Health Tools
AI 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 show AI "mental health" tools are landing people in psych wards. We break down when AI is helpful vs. when it's…
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How Doctors Are Using AI To Help Reverse Chronic Illness
Healthcare 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 don't "just take their meds." Type 2 diabetes patients sit at 10% control rates while the system shrugs. Dr. John Oberg...
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How To Use AI When Therapy Isn't Enough
After 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 response changed everything. This isn't about replacing your therapist. It's about using AI as the sherpa your therapist...
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How AI Can Help You Manage Your Grief
Most 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 three of his closest friends. For some reason it didn't work. So he built Guardian [AI]ngels (guardianaingels.ai), an AI...
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How AI & Bot-Driven Outrage Are Hijacking Our Attention
We'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? Unfortunately. In this episode we look into the increasingly unhinged intersection of AI, social media manipulation, and…
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How To Escape Social Media's Mental Health Trap
You'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 mentally balanced than after months of "researching" social media for the show. In this episode, discover why your phone…
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How To Fix Your Health Without More Gadgets Or Pills
Your 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 truck every morning? Meanwhile, your bathroom cabinet looks like a CVS exploded, and each "solution" creates three new...
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How You Can Stop Radicalization Before It Starts
Why do complete strangers online make you angrier than people you actually know? We're living in algorithmic echo chambers where billion-dollar tech companies profit from our rage while we argue about shit that doesn't matter. Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk's death spawned government censorship, proving...
About this show
Exploring AI, wearables, mental health apps, and how you can thrive as technology changes everything.
Welcome to the Brobots Podcast, where we plug into the wild world of AI and tech that's trying to manage your mental (and physical) health. Join your hosts, Jeremy Grater and Jason Haworth, every Wednesday for a no-holds-barred, often sarcastic, and always fun discussion. Are wearables really tracking your inner peace? Can an AI therapist truly understand your existential dread? We're diving deep into the gadgets, apps, and algorithms promising to optimize your well-being, dissecting the hype with a healthy dose of humor and skepticism. Expect candid conversations, sharp insights, and plenty of laughs as we explore the future of self-improvement, one tech-enhanced habit at a time. Tune into the Brobots Podcast – because if robots are going to take over our brains, we might as well have some fun talking about it! Subscribe now to discover practical tips and understand the
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