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.

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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.

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In episode 38 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a robot they actually like, Sam Altman teases GPT-5 and trolls Elon Musk, a robot dog grows arms, an AI compliments Graham, Mark worries about "gradual disempowerment", an octopus pretends to be a glove, and a listener reveals an entirely new reason to worry about AI.

Graham's plan to make his fortune is scuppered by an AI with opinions on time travel, and Mark investigates an intriguing question about a six-fingered glove.

Episode links:

• They see your photos.
• Robot dog grows arms.
• Elon Musk tries to buy OpenAI.
• Man builds a robot to cut his hair.
• Gradual disempowerment.
• Female journalist seeks AI boyfriend.
• Sam Altman teases GPT-5.
• Apple prototypes tabletop robot.
• The real economics of time travel.
• The efficient market hypothesis when time travel is possible.
• AI-hosted podcast discussing the extended efficient markets hypothesis.
• Listener Kenneth’s AI-generated glove with a disappointing number of fingers.
• Mark’s AI-generated glovetopus.
• Mark’s girlfriend’s six-fingered AI-generated glove.

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In episode 37 of The AI Fix, Google Gemini gets the munchies, the wettest country in the world can’t find any water, an escalator tries to eat Graham, o3-mini can’t rub two sticks together, and OpenAI invents an AI that can do “a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable tasks in the world” but nobody notices.

Graham wonders why his childhood was full of Triffids and quicksand, and discovers a way to trap overstepping AI crawlers in an endless maze, while Mark investigates the appalling state of DeepSeek security.

Episode links:

• AI IQ test results.
• Deep Research.
• Concern UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages.
• NHS to launch world’s biggest trial of AI breast cancer diagnosis.
• Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency.
• Google Super Bowl ad gets embarrassing attention before game even happens.
• Nepenthes.
• Feroot Security Research Reveals DeepSeek AI’s Hidden Data Pipeline to China.
• NowSecure Uncovers Multiple Security and Privacy Flaws in DeepSeek iOS Mobile App.
• Evaluating Security Risk in DeepSeek and Other Frontier Reasoning Models.

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In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America's AI hegemony.

Graham also discovers a remarkably f***ing effective way to remove AI snippets, a personal mobility robot gets a bit over-excited, some aliens regret installing an FTP server, and Mark explains what o3-mini owes to Spinal Tap.

Episode links:

• OpenAI releases o3-mini.
• Saying F*&! Disables Google AI Overviews.
• AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU.
• Movr: the robot that has a human on its back.
• DeepSeek.
• On DeepSeek and Export Controls.
• How to get Deepseek to talk about Tiananmen square.
• Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model.
• Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data.

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In episode 35 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn who the 175th best programmer in the world is, the AI supervillains put on suits for President Trump, a "not imaginary" AI turns out to be imaginary, OpenAI releases Operator and teases o3-mini, and Anthropic predicts that superintelligence is only three years away.

Graham considers giving his money, pets, and vital organs to a YouTuber with an AI, and Mark looks into Project Stargate and the geo-politics of AI.

Episode links:

• Trump announces the Stargate AI infrastructure project.
• Shipment of ‘Friend’ AI digital companion delayed.
• Sam Altman teases o3-mini.
• Trump accused of using AI to compose garbled executive orders.
• Introducting Operator.
• LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI.
• Dario Amodei talks about superintelligence.
• TimeShift.
• TimeShift cryopreservation facility promotional video.
• The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
• Implementation of Additional Export Controls: Certain Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items; Supercomputer and Semiconductor End Use; Entity List Modification.
• The memory wall.



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In episode 34 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch in horror as a vacuum cleaner sprouts a robotic arm and tiny little robot legs, a mind-reading helps a man chat up some French students, a robot dog runs as fast as Usain Bolt, and AI podcast hosts get impatient with their listeners. Meanwhile Graham isn’t tempted by NVIDIA’s $3000 supercomputer, and Mark explains his emergency manoeuvre for avoiding karaoke.

Graham shares a heartbreaking tale of a French woman’s encounter with someone who owns a copy of Photoshop, and Mark looks into AI's voracious appetite for jobs.

Episode links:

• The Black Panther 2 robot dog goes for a run.
• Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’.
• Omi launch video.
• Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data Center.
• New Roborock Vacuum Has an Arm and Picked Up My Sock.
• Roborock's grabby new robot vacuum is a huge flex.
• Dreame X50 Ultra.
• Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT.
• Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans.
• AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830,000.
• Fake Brad Pitt Scammed 800K€, This Hacker Found Him.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

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