BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human

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...

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...

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, voice, and decision-making patterns well enough to attend your meetings, sign your contracts, and — if so...

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, and what they’re designed to do with it. They also cover Google’s new deepfake phone-call detector, th...

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 qu...

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 represents, why the chip and capital arms race has locked out the people who built the internet's early open inf...

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 generat...

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. Cha...

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 the present nearly 50% of the time, according to a 2010 study, and it’s making us unhappy. Devices exploi...

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 — includi...

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 slopaganda works: why it's engineered to exploit emotional familiarity, why YouTube is selectively banning it w...

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. The question isn't whether this is alarming. It's whether the companies and governments responsible for p...

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 logic of where this all leads: a capitalism that's optimizing so hard for efficiency that it's burning the...

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 r...

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 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 either the most principled corporate decision in recent AI history or the beginning of a very ugly fight ove...

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 Emma to stress-test what AI-assisted self-reflection actually looks like: the real benefits, the obvious...

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 is legislating, regulating, or even discussing clearly yet. In this episode, we stress-test where quant...

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 acts as a cosmic mirror that reflects our worst habits back at us How laziness becomes the trap when mac...

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 huma...

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 in the face. One male nurse killed while filming. One civil rights attorney's tears added in post. All o...

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 jus...

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 accountabi...

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 calling AI-induced psychosis. After breaking free, he founded the AI Recovery Collective and wrote Escapin...

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, and drop from a 15/10 crisis level to manageable — all while his human therapist remained in the picture...