In episode 41 of the AI Fix, our hosts learn that society needs to be completely reordered by December, Grok accuses Trump of being a Russian asset, Graham discovers that parents were wrong about computer games all along, and Mark wonders if a kung-fu kicking robot from Unitree is the hero that we need.

Graham gives an AI a Rorschach test and learns about "Norman" the psychopathic AI, and Mark discovers why we should actually be optimistic about AI.

Plus - don’t miss our featured interview with Marc Beckman, the author of “Some future day: How AI is going to change everything.”

Episode links:

• Amazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ model.
• The kung-fu kicking Unitree G1 robot.
• Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, thinks Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
• People are using Mario to benchmark AI.
• Anthropic CEO says AI could be smarter than all humans by next year.
• A factory in Shanghai has made a robot army.
• We gave an AI a Rorschach test. What it saw in the inkblots offers a window into the human mind.
• Project Norman.
• Some Future Day (podcast).
• Some Future Day: How AI Is Going to Change Everything.

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In episode 40 of the AI Fix, Graham meets a shape-shifting GOAT, a robot dog gets wet, Mark likes Claude 3.7 Sonnet, OpenAI releases its dullest model yet, Grok 3 needs to go home and have a lie down, and everyone loses their minds over two AI agents booking a hotel room using 90s-era modem dial-up sounds.

Graham tells the incredible story of a woman whose life was saved after ChatGPT told her to go to the emergency room, stat! And Mark explains how just a little negativity made GPT-4o bad to the bone.

Episode links:

• Underwater Walking of the Honey Badger Legged Robot.
• Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code.
• Morphing robot GOAT adapts to diverse terrains.
• Morphing robot turns challenging terrain to its advantage.
• Two AI agents on a phone call realise they’re both AI.
• Gibberlink.
• Grok’s new “unhinged” voice mode can curse and scream, simulate phone sex.
• Introducing GPT-4.5.
• ChatGPT Saved My Life (No, Seriously, I’m Writing this from the ER).
• Emergent misalignment.

The AI Fix

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In episode 39 of the AI Fix, our hosts watch a drone and a robot dog shoot fireworks at each other, xAI launches Grok 3, Mark explains that AIs can design genomes now, a robot starts a punch up, Zuck becomes a mind reader, an AI cracks a ten-year science question in two days, and an anatomically accurate synthetic human recreates a terrifying scene from The Long Good Friday.

Graham learns that it always pays to be polite before running over 15 people with a train, and Mark discovers why AIs value some lives more than others, particularly their own.

Episode links:

• AI can now design the genetic code for life.
• Mark Zuckerberg wants to inject himself into your brain.
• AI cracks superbug problem in two days, ten years quicker than humans.
• Robot dog chained-up… for art.
• Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.
• Dancing Unitree G1 robot.
• Things get a bit lively at robot dance party in front of one billion people.
• xAI releases Grok3.
• Drone and robot dog do battle in dog fight.
• Why you shouldn’t say 'please' or 'thank you' to AI (and why it matters).
• Does it pay to be polite to chatbots?
• Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance.
• Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs.

The AI Fix

The 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.

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