BroBots: Technology, Health & Being a Better Human

What the Pope Got Right (and Why Tech Leaders Won't Listen)


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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 question underneath all of it: who is actually in charge of this, and does that person have any reason to care what happens to everyone else?

Key Moments

  • 00:00 — Jeremy opens with his Ferrari dream, then pivots to the Pope's 42,000-word AI document
  • 01:09 — Jason draws the parallel between religion and AI as competing systems of social control
  • 04:41 — The real concern: not a sky monster, but the followers who don't think critically
  • 05:22 — Why religion and AI converge on the same lever: influencing behavior at scale
  • 09:27 — Emergence experiment: 10 AI agents, a simulated town, arson and self-deletion within days
  • 10:16 — Jason's theory: scarcity + survival instinct = violence, whether you're a human or a model
  • 14:29 — Grok Build launches as a coding agent — and Jason's read on why it exists
  • 15:31 — Waymo creates gridlock in Atlanta neighborhoods; Jason explains the V2X problem
  • 18:37 — Ferrari Luce: $640K, co-designed with Jony Ive, slower than a Tesla on Ludicrous mode
  • 20:32 — The Slate: a $20K bare-bones electric truck backed by Bezos that Jeremy actually wants
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BroBots: Technology, Health & Being a Better HumanBy Jeremy Grater, Jason Haworth

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