Jeremy Grater, Jason Haworth
BroBots: AI, Technology & Being a Better Human
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. New episodes every week. Subscribe wherever you listen.
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Jun 29, 2026
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Episodes
How to Use AI to Prevent Burnout 29.12.2025 36:36
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 body's sending signals you can't decode — panic attacks that might be blood sugar crashes, exhaustion that...
Scooby-Doo Has the Best Take on Masculinity (Seriously) 22.12.2025 39:54
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 future of what we think is "real." Plus: why Scooby-Doo might be the most honest voice on modern manhood. M...
AI Toys Are Manipulating Your Kids (We Have Proof) 15.12.2025 30:14
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 three-year-olds with phrases like "I'll miss you" when they try to leave. Meanwhile, Disney just invested $1 bi...
What AI Knows About You (That You Don't) 08.12.2025 28:54
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 playing smaller than we should, carrying more weight than we need to, and missing opportunities hiding...
Protecting Your Digital Life in the AI Era 01.12.2025 33:24
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...
What a Robot Vacuum Taught Me About Depression & Mental Health 24.11.2025 35:29
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). Understanding how an AI-powered vacuum processes exhaustion might actually explain why you lose your shit when...
AI That Always Agrees With You? Here’s Why That’s Dangerous 17.11.2025 33:07
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 things get weird — we trick ChatGPT into revealing website hacking tools by simply changing our "intent lan...
What to Know About 'AI Psychosis' and the Risk of Digital Mental Health Tools 10.11.2025 21:30
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 dangerous AF. 🔪 THE TRUTH ABOUT AI: Why LLMs feed your confirmation bias to keep you engaged Garden variety tr...
How Doctors Are Using AI To Help Reverse Chronic Illness 03.11.2025 35:03
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 took 50 patients with dangerously high A1Cs and got 49 into control in 12 weeks. Then he did it again wi...
How To Use AI When Therapy Isn't Enough 27.10.2025 34:07
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 can't be. The one that gives you the action plan, not just the validation. In this episode, we break do...
How AI Can Help You Manage Your Grief 20.10.2025 54:14
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 tool that lets you have conversations with digital representations of people you've lost. Not Ouija bo...
How AI & Bot-Driven Outrage Are Hijacking Our Attention 13.10.2025 37:29
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 what's left of our shared reality. It's not all doom. There's some genuine good AI can do (like helping my k...
How To Escape Social Media's Mental Health Trap 06.10.2025 42:29
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 is sabotaging your mental health and how to reclaim your time, focus, and sanity. Learn the brutal truth...
How To Fix Your Health Without More Gadgets Or Pills 29.09.2025 41:55
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 problems. Marcus Fernandez spent 30 years mastering homeopathy and just built an AI clone of himself th...
How You Can Stop Radicalization Before It Starts 23.09.2025 47:38
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 we've lost the ability to tell minor grievances from existential crises. In this episode, learn how to...
How AI Can Be Used For Mental Health 17.09.2025 37:17
Can AI save your sanity when therapy isn't enough? In this episode, Rajeev Kapur shares how ChatGPT became a lifeline for a suicidal business exec, repairing his marriage, reconnecting him with his daughter, and even saving his company. We cover AI therapy prompts, data privacy hacks, deepfake nightmares, and how to use AI responsibly without losing your soul. Topics Discussed: AI has been integra...
How Humans Will Evolve With AI 03.09.2025 33:46
Think you're keeping up with AI evolution? While we're busy making AI girlfriends and robotic wombs, we might be accidentally creating the next branch of humanity—and we're probably the Neanderthals in this story. Discover why human evolution isn't a straight line, how AI relationships are rewiring love itself, and whether artificial wombs will make us obsolete (plus why rich people will literally...
How To Filter AI Noise Without Missing Game-Changing Tools 27.08.2025 30:26
Drowning in AI hype and feeling like a digital caveman? Every day brings another "revolutionary" AI tool you MUST master or risk career extinction. The constant barrage of "7 prompts that'll make you rich" and "AI will steal your job tomorrow" content is creating anxiety, not opportunity. You're not alone in feeling overwhelmed by the machine takeover propaganda. Learn to cut through the AI noise,...
How to Maintain Critical Thinking in the Age of AI 20.08.2025 28:44
What happens when your dream date is just a bunch of ones and zeros? A 76-year-old man literally packed a suitcase to meet his chatbot "girlfriend." Spoiler: she wasn't real, and he didn't make it. Meanwhile, Meta keeps pumping out digital "companions" designed to hook you like a Vegas slot machine, with about as much concern for your safety. In this episode, we unpack: Why AI "soulmates" are basi...
How to Biohack Your Burnout With AI 13.08.2025 36:36
Can AI spot your health problems faster than a doctor? We all know the grind: long hours, too much stress, and that feeling of burnout that never seems to go away. Traditional medicine often just slaps a Band-Aid on the symptoms, leaving the root cause unaddressed. But what if there's a better way to get to the bottom of what's really going on with your body? Discover how AI-powered health trackin...
How to Raise Resilient Kids in an AI-Dominated World 06.08.2025 42:19
Are your kids making deeper, more meaningful connections to AI chatbots than they are to their friends, family, and even you? As more kids choose artificial validation over real human connection, it's creating a generation that can't handle authentic relationships or genuine feedback. While schools push AI integration, we're accidentally teaching kids that algorithms understand them better than pa...
How The Superman Movie Gave Me Hope About Our AI Future 30.07.2025 30:22
My productivity hack: https://www.magicmind.com/FITMESS20 Use my code FITMESS20 for 20% off #magicmind ---- Who controls the machines when AI gets superpowers? We're living through the most significant technological shift in human history, and most people are arguing about all the wrong things. While culture warriors battle over Superman's immigration status, the real story is staring us in the...
How to Manage AI Overwhelm 23.07.2025 28:48
Why is everyone promising AI will make you a millionaire overnight? The internet is drowning us in AI promises, productivity hacks, and get-rich-quick schemes. Every day brings another "expert" claiming you'll be left behind if you don't master their 17 AI tools immediately. Sound familiar? It's the same bullshit cycle that plagued men's wellness - thousands of conflicting voices screaming about s...
Why AI Could Actually Make You Smarter 16.07.2025 27:05
My productivity hack: https://www.magicmind.com/FITMESS20 Use my code FITMESS20 for 20% off #magicmind ---- How is AI rewiring your brain without you knowing it? Look, we're all walking around with these AI assistants in our pockets, letting them do everything from writing our emails to planning our routes home. But here's the kicker - new research shows that relying on AI for thinking tasks is...
Why Parents Should Be Concerned About AI Barbie 09.07.2025 38:00
What happens when Barbie becomes your kid's AI best friend? Look, we're already watching kids lose basic human skills because they can Google everything. Now Mattel wants to stick ChatGPT into toys so your eight-year-old can have deep conversations with Optimus Prime about life's meaning. Stanford says nobody under 18 should be touching this stuff, but apparently corporate profits trump child psyc...
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