The AI Fix

In episode 70 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn that AI makes people more dishonest, Waymo's robo-cars save lives but get outsmarted by a bathroom mirror, a "rescue" bot slurps up victims head-first, and China shows off a fusion robot arm that can lift ten elephants (or 200,000 pigeons, if you’re scientific about it).

Meanwhile Graham reveals how AIs are tricked into solving CAPTCHAs with fake mouse wiggles, and Mark explains how OpenAI’s “deliberative alignment” works perfectly - until the AI realises it is being watched.

So, nothing to worry about there then...

Episode links:

• Japanese rescue robot slurps up humans.
• China’s new robot arm for fusion power plants can lift loads as heavy as 10 elephants.
• Waymo safety report.
• Dr Jon Slotkin tweets.
• Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones.
• Artificial Intelligence promotes dishonesty.
• ChatGPT Agent Violates Policy and Solves Image CAPTCHAs.
• Video of ChatGPT agent solving image CAPTCHAs.
• Stress Testing Deliberative Alignment for Anti-Scheming Training.

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In episode 69 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover brain rot, a shark wears trainers on its fins, an AI writes a terrible J-Pop song, Graham learns that ants don’t care about AI, Mark predicts the precise date of Graham’s demise, Norway trusts $1.9 trillion to an AI investor, and Florida thins out its dumbest pythons using laughably bad robot rabbits.

Also in this episode, the first AI Fix “you wouldn’t trust a pigeon” mug is spotted in the wild, and the show gets its first bit of feedback from an AI listener.

Plus, Graham learns that more people have used ChatGPT than have ever owned a ferret, and Mark finally finds a use for cryptocurrency.

Episode links:

• First AI Fix “would you trust a pigeon” mug seen in the wild.
• The AI Fix’s first feedback from an AI.
• Elon Musk says the next version of Grok AI will match human intelligence.
• Ballerina Cappuccino and Tung Tung Tung Sahur.
• Tralalelo Tralala x Havanna.
• What is ‘brain rot’? Should parents be worried about bizarre AI videos captivating kids.
• Fans prefer AI song to one written by a human in big public vote.
• AKB48 lyric video.
• AI can forecast your future health – just like the weather.
• Florida deploys robot rabbits to control invasive Burmese python population.
• Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades.
• Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption.
• How people are using ChatGPT.
• Virtual Agent Economies.

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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).

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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.

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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 meltdown
• Robot 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'.

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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?

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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.

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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 role
• OpenAI introduces gpt-oss.
• Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.
• Tweet by OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey
• Bruce 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”.

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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 Fix

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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.

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