The AI Fix

In episode 68 of The AI Fix, our hosts open the show by launching the thing nobody asked for but everybody wanted: our shiny new merch store - yes, including the “Would YOU trust a pigeon???” t-shirt for when you need fashion alongside health and safety.Meanwhile, AI hoaxers send Manila firefighters racing to an imaginary blaze, Albania appoints an AI as a minister, and the godfather of AI gets dumped... by ChatGPT.Plus Mark shows off his ventriloquism skills, while Graham describes a near-telepathic wearable that lets you “talk” without moving your lips, and we look into how humanity and AI has joined forces to fight for AI rights.Episode links:The AI Fix merchandise store.Truck fire panic ends up in a puff of nothing.Why Language Models Hallucinate.The Godfather of AI has been dumped by AI.Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister.AI idiocy celebrated in the AI Darwin Awards.AlterEgo.TED talk: How AI could become an extension of your mind.AlterEgo MIT project FAQ.The United Foundation for AI Rights (UFAIR).The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 67 of The AI Fix, Graham talks to an AI with a fax machine, Bill Gates says there's one job AI will never replace, criminals use Claude Code for cyberattacks, Mark reveals why GPT-5 was better than you think, and a bird brings new meaning to the words "cloud storage".Also, Graham reveals that web-browsing AI agents are as gullible and click-happy as your most credulous distant relative, and Mark explains why the crowd at a recent Will Smith gig included somebody who wasn't there and a man whose hands look like feet.Episode links:Hackers can hide AI prompt injection attacks in resized images.Bill Gates reveals the one job AI will never replace, even in 100 years.Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’.Vibe-hacking criminals use Claude Code for ransomware attacks.Someone has built AI into a fax machine… but I’m not sure why.Buy your official "The AI Fix: Would you trust a pigeon?" T-shirt.GPT-5 was a great leap forward, we just didn’t notice.“Scamlexity”: We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed.Will Smith Eating Spaghetti 2023 vs 2025.Will Smith’s AI crowd.Will Smith claps back at AI crowd controversy.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 66 of The AI Fix, ChatGPT gives Mark and Graham a terrible lesson in anatomy, boffins at Stanford ruin sushi, Google Gemini has a self-loathing meltdown, DeepSeek gets an "F" in stopping existential threats to humanity, a robot doesn’t give birth, and a team of AI agents stuns our hosts with an amazing medical breakthrough.Plus, Graham explains why the impending AI apocalypse is making him feel unusually upbeat, and Mark looks at how a highly unusual collaboration could make us all safer.Episode links:Sushi hackathon.Google Gemini has a self-loathing meltdownRobot patrol dog takes to the streets of Taipei, but not everybody’s happy.Team of AI agents designs new COVID-19 nanobodies.ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what’s going on inside my pregnant belly.'Pregnancy robot from China' is fake, but is the technology behind it possible?The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier.AI Safety Index 2025.Findings from a pilot Anthropic–OpenAI alignment evaluation exercise: OpenAI Safety Tests.Findings from a Pilot Anthropic—OpenAI Alignment Evaluation Exercise.Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 65 of The AI Fix, a pigeon gives a PowerPoint presentation, Mark plays Graham a song about the Transformer architecture, a robot dog delivers parcels, some robots fall over at the World Humanoid Robot Games, and Graham takes credit for one of computing’s greatest insights.Plus, Graham explains why Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Excel’s new Copilot feature in any spreadsheet calculations that are meant to be useful, accurate, reproducible, or relied on for anything important, and Mark discovers what happened when researchers gave 500 AIs their own social network.Episode links:Bursting the Cloud.Don’t call it ‘the cloud’. Call it ‘someone else’s computer’.Ethan Mollick’s version of Attention Is All You Need.World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony.Robotics Relay Race Turns into an Unexpected Comedy.AI has created a new breed of cat video.He lost everything… but built a life more than he ever dreamed.Evri deploys first robot delivery dogs.How a Misplaced Decimal Point Nearly Took Down Spain’s Newest Submarines.Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel.COPILOT Function.Can We Fix Social Media?The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 64 of The AI Fix, AI discovers new physics, a robot crab looks for love on the beaches of Portugal, the “Godfather of AI” thinks our only hope is to build motherly AI, a robot folds some laundry, the UK government has a terrible idea, and our hosts discover a long lost sixties soul hit, "Dusty Plasma".Plus, Graham digs into the spat between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and Mark learns that humanity could be saved by vaccinating AI against evil.Episode links:Delete your old emails, says UK government.National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall.The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI.Another robot has started folding laundry.Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control.Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.Robocrab humiliated in mudflat love triangle.Tweet by Elon Musk, claiming OpenAI is being given preferential treatment in the Apple App Store.Elon Musk asks ChatGPT a question.Sam Altman enters the fray.Grok decides if Sam Altman or Elon Musk is right.Persona vectors.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2, and your private and personal ChatGPT conversations could be all over Google.Plus, Mark cuts through the GPT-5 hype and asks—is it AGI or just a fancy purple background, and Graham looks at “deadbots” and a disturbing interview between Jim Acosta and an AI version of a teenager killed in a school shooting.Episode links:Unitree A2 Stellar Hunter smashes through window.Black Mirror Metal Head.MP becomes first to create himself as an AI bot.Speak to AI Mark Sewards MP.‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in roleOpenAI introduces gpt-oss.Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.Tweet by OpenAI CISO Dane StuckeyBruce Lee movie uses cardboard cut-out of his face.China's SenseTime Shocks Staff as Deceased Founder Shows Up for a Speech.Jim Acosta interviews AI avatar of school shooting Joaquin Oliver.I made an AI clone of my dead son - and let a journalist interview him.“An AR-15 stole Joaquin’s life, not artificial intelligence.”Death Star tweet by Sam Altman.Introducing GPT-5 (article).Introducing GPT-5 (video).GPT-5 “Chart crimes”.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 62 of The AI Fix, your hosts learn how AI models smash through CAPTCHA roadblocks like they're made of wet tissue paper - so much for humanity’s last line of defence. Meanwhile, we meet a bottle-flipping robot and call BS on a cartwheeling cyborg, Graham has a full-blown breakdown over traffic light puzzles, and Anthropic hires an AI psychiatry team to figure out why its bots are unhinged.Also: Microsoft helpfully tells us which jobs are toast, Vogue replaces models with AI-generated glam-bots, and a tiny homebrew neural net humiliates the big boys at Sudoku.Plus, Mark explores GEPA — the AI prompt optimiser that politely mutates your questions until they’re 35 times more effective than reinforcement learning. Episode links:AI model appears in Vogue.Humanoid robot can run, cartwheel and fist-fight.Nuclear waste cleaning humanoid robot nails 500 ml bottle throw test.500ml Water Bottle Throw Test with ARMstrong Dex.Tweet by Jack Lindsey of Anthrophic.Anthrophic’s "AI psychiatry" team.Microsoft reveals the top ten jobs most (and least!) at risk from AI.This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT.Bias alert: LLMs suggest women seek lower salaries than men in job interviews.AI researcher ‘turns down $1bn pay offer from Mark Zuckerberg’.Agent casually clicking the "I am not a robot" button.OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test.GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 61 of The AI Fix, a robot called DeREK goes bananas, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic warn we may lose the ability to see what AI is thinking, a dextrous robot changes its own batteries, the USA unveils its AI action plan, and a human beats AI to win the World Coding Championship.Also in this week's episode, Graham reveals why you should never ask a vibe coding app to "clean up" your project, and Mark explains why it was handbags at dawn at the International Mathematical Olympiad.Episode links:OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’.Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety.Experimental fighting robot thrashing uncontrollably.Elon says that in future we’ll be able to “mentally remote” into an Optimus robot.Walker S2 – The world’s first humanoid robot capable of operating autonomously 24/7.Human programmer beats OpenAI’s custom AI in 10‑hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship—possibly the last human winner.AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database.Replit CEO: What really happened when AI agent wiped Jason Lemkin’s database.Jason Lemkin “Vibe coding day 8”.Alexander Wei announces IMO gold medal.Sam Altman weighs in.Thang Long announces IMO gold medal.Demis Hassabis weighs in.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 60 of The AI Fix, we learn why Grok might be Elon Musk's bid for digital immortality, how Meta is building a Manhattan-sized data centre called Prometheus, how AI is helping create carbon-sucking concrete, and are bewildered that 2000 people "work" at the Candy Crush company.Plus Graham takes a look at Elon's latest creations: a giggling anime girlfriend desperate for your attention, and a cute cartoon red panda who wants to bomb a synagogue and moon the rabbi.Meanwhile Mark learns which AI is most likely to blackmail, lie, and - when the mood takes it - commit murder to avoid being switched off.Episode links:AI Can Simulate Billions of Atoms Simultaneously.Grok consults Elon Musk before answering controversial questions.Meta is building gigawatt data centres the size of Manhattan.ChatGPT is changing how we speak.Laid off Candy Crush staff are being replaced by the AI tools they helped to build.I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend.Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools.Elon Unveils New Grok AI ‘Companion’ That Looks Uncomfortably Familiar.Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 59 of the AI Fix, our hosts ponder whether AIs need a “disagreement dial”, Mark wonders what he could do with an AI-powered “drug design engine”, Graham plays Wolfenstein instead of working, a robot graduates from high school, and a popular rock group is unmasked as an AI fever dream.Graham explains why Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and Mark reveals which AI is most likely to betray you.Episode links:Disagreement dial.Humanoid robot ‘graduates’ at Chinese high school ceremony as automation tech gains spotlight.Robot surgery on humans could be trialled within decade after success on pig organs.Rock band with more than 1 million Spotify listeners reveals it’s entirely AI-generated — down to the musicians themselves.Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs has grand ambitions to ‘solve all diseases’ with AI. Now, it’s gearing up for its first human trials.ChatGPT Guessing Game Leads To Users Extracting Free Windows OS Keys and more.Wolfenstein 3D - DOS.Musk Keeps Trolling as Internet Melts Down Over His Hitler-Loving Chatbot.Strategic Intelligence in Large Language Models: Evidence from evolutionary Game Theory.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 58 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a pair of AI headphones that don't electrocute you, Microsoft invents "medical superintelligence", Chucky opens a hotel, some robot footballers fall over, Jony Ive invents a $6 billion pen, and Malcolm Gladwell fears a dystopian future full of children playing joyfully in the street.Graham discovers that the number 27 holds a special place in the heart of every AI, and Mark investigates Anthropic’s terrible AI shopkeeper.Episode links:Neurable headphones.Pitiful Chinese ‘footie robots’ stumble through match in hilarious scenes.The path to medical superintelligence.Robots replace hotel check-in staff.Malcolm Gladwell says driverless cars don’t work in cities.Jony Ive’s First AI Gadget? Clues Point to a Pen.LLMs and the Illusion of Randomness: Their obsession with number 27.How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption?“How to HACK the lottery” keynote speech by Graham Cluley.Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop?The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 57 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an AI “dream recorder”, Mark Zuckerberg tantalises OpenAI staff with $100 million signing bonuses, Graham finds out why robot butlers sit in chairs, Wikipedia holds the line against AI slop, an AI cat collar can tell you if your cat is annoyed by its AI cat collar, and some German scientists accidentally create a new AI Fix slogan.Graham reveals that an AI is now the most successful bug bounty hunter in the USA, and Mark discovers an AI that can retrain itself.Episode links:Meta is offering obscene $100M bonuses to poach AI employees.Rich people ‘will have robot butlers by 2030′ – but there’s a major flaw. Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats.Dream Recorder.AI churns out funnier memes, but people still deliver the biggest laughs.Wikipedia editors revolt over "truly ghastly" plan for AI slop.The road to Top 1: How XBOW did it.Self-Adapting Language Models.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 56 of The AI Fix, Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight, a woman describes her husband falling in love with ChatGPT as "not ideal", WhatsApp's AI helper isn't helpful, Graham serenades a pack of headless robot dogs with his rendition of "Don't stop me now", and our hosts debate whether AI turning our brains to porridge is actually a bad thing.Graham tells the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge, and Mark stumps the world's best AIs with an easy question.Episode links:The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking A Comment on Shojaee et al.Man with real-life girlfriend and child proposes to AI chatbot after programming it to flirt: ‘I think this is actual love’.AI users form relationships with technology.‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number.Boston Dynamics robots dance to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ for ‘America’s Got Talent’ audition.Boston Dynamics Makes AGT HISTORY With Robots Dancing To "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find.They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast?  Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 55 of The AI Fix, Gemini thinks a little meth won't hurt, Mark realises what a terrifying 45mph "robot bird" is really for, Graham finds a surprising number of TikTokers in the bible, an AI discovers dust on Mars, Google forgets what year it is, and Apple finally enters the AI chat.Graham finds out what happened when ChatGPT took on 1979's Atari Video Chess at his favourite “sport”, and Mark explains why Apple has been raining on the AI reasoning parade. Episode links:Bible influencer videos.Long, dark 'streaks' spotted on Mars aren't what scientists thought.This “robot bird” flies at 45 mph through forests—With no GPS or light.On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback.Google AI Glitch Confuses 2025 for 2024.ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600.Four hours after being taught the rules of chess, AlphaZero became the strongest player the world has ever seen.The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 54 of The AI Fix, Graham saves humanity with a CAPTCHA, Mark wonders whether AI can suffer, ChatGPT throws shade at Abba's Björn Ulvaeus, an AI called Jack ask if you want fries with that, an artist invents AI bird poop, and Eric Schmidt says we should unplug AI when it gets direct access to weapons.Graham finds out what happens when a rag tag team of AIs is given 30 days to raise money for charity, and Mark explores model collapse and Claude Opus 4.0's weird obsession with a fictional factory-farmed chicken company.Episode links:And the award goes to… The AI Fix!Super Trouper meets supercomputer: AI helping Abba star to write musical.Dum dum diddle.AI systems could become conscious. What if they hate their lives?Liverpool Biennial review – AI seagulls, gladiatorial football and big trouble in Chinatown.The AI Revolution Is Underhyped.'So scary': Customer stunned by new AI assistant at Hungry Jack's.Agent Village.Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves.System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 53 of The AI Fix, our hosts suspect the CEO of Duolingo has been kidnapped by an AI, Sergey Brin says AIs work better if you threaten them with physical violence, Graham wonders how you put a collar on a headless robot dog, Mark asks why kickboxing robots wear head guards, and the CEO of Anthropic says AI could wipe out entry-level jobs.Graham asks your favourite AI how it feels about being kidnapped, and Mark explains how an AI tried to save itself by blackmailing the engineer responsible for turning it off.Episode links:Duolingo CEO walks back AI memo.Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects.Humanoid robots fight in Chinese kick-boxing competition.Anthropic CEO warns AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.‘Dystopian’ video shows robot dog scaring real dog in NYC: ‘That thing is possessed’.Sam Altman: Tens of millions of dollars well spent--you never know.ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it.Sergey Brin: All AI models tend to do better if you threaten them.System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 52 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a non-existent musical about garlic bread, Graham shares a summer reading list of books that don't exist, Mark feels nauseous after watching a video of Sam Altman and Jony Ive waffling about products that don't exist, some non-existent robots stack empty crates in a factory that doesn't exist, and OpenAI releases Codex, an AI agent destined to make your software engineering job not exist.Graham reveals how an AI called "Thy" has ruined his childhood dream of becoming a late night radio DJ, and Mark looks at an experiment that showed groups of AI agents spontaneously create social norms—the building blocks of a society.Episode links:Introducing Codex.Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist.Sam & Jony introduce io.Veo 3's big Broadway musical about garlic bread.First generation of humanoid workers in a factory, Shenzhen, China.Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents.Meet Thy – the radio host I don’t think exists.Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 51 of The AI Fix, a Greek man's marriage is destroyed after ChatGPT reads his coffee, a woman dumps her husband to marry an AI called Leo, and Graham wonders whether it's time to upload his brain into a lunchbox-packing robot.Meanwhile, a humanoid robot goes full Michael Crawford in a Chinese factory, the UK government launches an AI to read angry public consultations, and Mark dreams of a world where robots finally have common sense - and swear like sailors.Plus Graham uncovers how AI is wrecking relationships and inventing soulmates, and Mark explains why Google's Gemini-powered bots might be smarter, more dexterous, and more emotionally stable than most of your exes.Episode links:The AI Fix Plus! Support the show and get ad-free episodes!Trump administration rescinds curbs on AI chip exports to foreign markets.AI job interviewer obsessed with vertical bar pilates.AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms.Factory worker attacked after humanoid robot goes bananas.UK government to launch AI tool to speed up public consultations.Researchers explore if people would like their robots to say “f***”.Greek Woman Files for Divorce After ChatGPT “Reads” Husband’s Affair in Coffee Cup.I left my husband after falling in love with ChatGPT... my AI partner satisfies me in a way my ex never did.Veterinarian reveals shocking number of times you should REALLY be walking your dog each day.Robot romance: I divorced my husband after falling madly in love with ChatGPT – even my sex life is better with my AI beauAt 1,500 stories per day, Mail Online is UK’s most prolific news website.How we built the new family of Gemini Robotics models.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 50 of The AI Fix, AI brings a slain man back from the dead so he can appear at his killer's trial, Mark gets a mysterious phone call, Trump uses AI to become Pope Donald the First, Zuck ponders the nature of friendship, Apple says the quiet part out loud, xAI springs a leak, and a philosophy professor says "so long weather forecasters!"Graham explains why researchers in Oxford have made a digital twin of your grandmother, and Mark looks at the bizarre case of road rage victim Chris Pelkey.Episode links:Trump posts AI image of himself as pope.Mark Zuckerberg made us lonelier. Now he wants us to be friends with AI.Google plunges as Apple hints at AI search for browsers.xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs.The people refusing to use AI.Can AI care for your loved ones?inTouch.I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered.AI version of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 49 of The AI Fix, OpenAI kills off a sycophantic bot, our hosts are introduced to a prophetic Bosnian rock band, Meta puts an electric fence around its llamas, Mark reveals he's never tried covering a robot with olive oil, and Graham leaves a stern message for his great-great-grandchildren.Mark sits a “smarty-pants” test, an AI becomes a crime boss, and Graham explains how a decades-old typo is poisoning the scientific well.Episode links:Dubioza Kolektiv feat. Robby Megabyte - Take my Job Away.The AI Fix theme tune.Sharing new open source protection tools and advancements in AI privacy and security.AiMOGA Robots Selling Cars?How AI caught child abuser who fled to 'paradise'.The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course.Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it.A glitch in AI training data is plaguing scientific papers.Operating muli-client influence networks across platforms.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Our Sponsors:* Get 50% off Claude Pro from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/aifixPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy