In episode 25 of The AI Fix, humanity creates a satellite called Skynet and then loses it, Graham folds proteins in the comfort of his living room, a Florida man gets a robot dog, Grok rats on its own boss, and a podcast host discovers Brazil nuts.

Graham meets an elderly grandmother who's taking on the AI scammers, our hosts learn why Google is listening to phone calls, and Mark looks at how OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to prevent “large scale devastation” by their own AIs.

Episode links:

• Robot dog patrols Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after election victory.
• AI developers discover 'Donald Trump neuron', expert says.
• AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source.
• Someone moved Skynet satellite, and no-one knows who or why.
• The first entirely AI-generated video game.
• Twitter’s AI, Grok, identifies the person most responsible for spreading misinformation on the platform
• OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations.
• Petition urges Donald Trump to make Elon Musk the White House’s special advisor on AI.
• How Elon Musk Could Reshape AI Policy in the Trump White House.
• Other phones before and after the iPhone release.
• Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe.
• AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created by O2 to waste phone scammers' time.
• Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy.
• OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework (Beta).

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In episode 24 of The AI Fix, Mark makes an unforgivable error about the Terminator franchise, our hosts wonder if a "seductive" government chatbot will make it easier to talk about tax, a radio station abandons its three month AI experiment after a week, and OpenAI parks its tanks on Google’s lawn.

Graham gets cosmic and wonders why we aren’t surrounded by advanced alien AIs, our hosts argue about whether the moon landings or the invention of the cheese sandwich were more consequential events in human history, and Mark tells Graham that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner.

Episode links:

• AI chatbot launches on Gov.UK – with mixed results.
• Introducing ChatGPT search.
• Polish radio station abandons use of AI 'presenters' following outcry.
• Anthropic introduces “Computer use”, a way for its AI models to control computers.
• Organiser “highly embarrassed” after fake AI Halloween parade.
• AI Has Likely Spread Through Cosmos, Says Former NASA Chief Historian.
• If alien life is artificially intelligent, it may be stranger than we can imagine.
• Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It.
• The Intelligence Age by Sam Altman.
• Sam Altman talking about the next five years.
• Mustafa Suleyman talking about AGI.
• Eric Schmidt talking about AGI.

The AI Fix

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In episode 23 of The AI Fix, an AI finds a new way to make life difficult for women in STEM, Graham reveals his brilliant idea for treating any medical emergency, a beloved chat show host returns from the grave, and our hosts learn that computer viruses were almost called computer weeds.

Graham tells Mark a story involving a murder, a moth, and an AI journalist, and Mark pits his co-host against the world's most advanced computer program in a maths Olympiad.

Episode links:

• AI to help doctors detect broken bones on X-rays.
• AI-powered garden will talk back to you.
• The world isn’t ready for AGI says OpenAI’s departing “senior adviser for the readiness of AGI”.
• Michael Parkinson is back from the dead to interview celebrities.
• New research shows robots could learn from YouTube videos.
• Opening scene of “Brazil”.
• OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway.
• Eileen Vagas’s profile on Muckrack.
• News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way.
• Letter From The Publisher: Hoodline's Transition to Hybrid Content.
• AI-Powered News Site Accidentally Accuses District Attorney of Murder.
• Bluesky post by Michael Masnick.
• Transluce.



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In episode 22 of The AI Fix, our hosts encounter a bowl of buttermilk king crab ice cream prepared by a baby hippo, a TV station finds an even better way to generate programme ideas than using a tank full of manatees, and Elon Musk does the world's most expensive Blade Runner cosplay.

Graham discovers a robot tongue and ponders the implications of AIs with an appetite, and Mark explains ASCII smuggling — a prompt injection attack that uses completely invisible characters.

Episode links:

• Tweet by Elizabeth Laraki.
• Come and dine at Ethos, the AI restaurant that doesn’t exist.
• Ethos Instagram account.
• AI toilet cam takes pics of your poop.
• TV station says it is using AI to come up with programme ideas.
• Alan Partridge's Monkey Tennis.
• ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models.
• Elon Musk sued for using AI-generated Blade Runner imagery at robotaxi event.
• AI ‘tongue’ can ‘taste’ the difference between Coke and Pepsi.
• A matter of taste: Electronic tongue reveals AI inner thoughts.
• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.

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In episode 21 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classical music.

Graham finds out what happens if you sellotape an Alexa to a Chihuahua, and Mark asks AI Trump and AI Harris how many Rs there are in "strawberry".

Episode links:

• Thermonator - the robot dog with a flamethrower.
• AI Smart Glasses Read Your Emotions and Watch What You Eat.
• Three-armed robot conductor makes debut in Dresden.
• Introducing Moflin - an AI-powered limbless guinea pig.
• Moflin promotional video.
• Google buys nuclear reactors to power AI data centres.
• Sotheby’s to auction painting of Alan Turing… painted by a robot.
• The inventor of the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to help us kill ourselves.
• Museum visitors to have AI chats with dodo.
• Shazam band.
• Shazam in action.
• I watched an AI collar make a dog talk, and it was unreal.
• This Talking Pet Collar Is Like a Chatbot for Your Dog.
• Elon Musk's tweet about Kamala Harris.
• Ask Trump and Harris Anything.
• Donald Trump voice.
• Kamala Harris voice.

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In episode 20 of The AI Fix, Mark asks an AI to make a very important decision, the Nobel academy finds a bandwagon, Graham gets a new nickname, a pair of robots prove that AI can't do humour, and our hosts find out why emotional support insects haven't taken off.

Graham introduces Mark to Optimus, the robot that can't be trusted to fold a t-shirt, and Mark introduces Graham to an AI Fix super fan.

Episode links:

• Nobel physics prize awarded to 'godfather of AI' who warned the technology could end humanity.
• AI robots get into quarrel.
• Google DeepMind scientists and biochemist win Nobel chemistry prize.
• Ring adds AI search to let you easily scan video footage - but with mixed results.
• One in 10 Americans turning to AI for emotional support.
• Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery.
• Tesla Optimus robot plays Rock Paper Scissors.
• Elon Musk unveils plan for 'Tesla Bot' with man dancing in a bodysuit.
• Elon Musk Announces "Optimus Robot".
• Robert Scoble interrogates Optimus robot.
• Elon Musk’s Beer-Pouring Optimus Robots Are Not Autonomous.
• Castmagic.

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In episode 19 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark discover some AI podcast hosts having an existential crisis, a robot dog climbs another step towards world domination, Mark makes a gift for anyone working in tech support, and William Shatner chews through Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Things can take a terrible turn when a pair of bored students think they're Ethan Hunt, and Mark thinks that an underwater IKEA might be the silver lining to the climate crisis.

Episode links:

• NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown.
• "Echoes of the ancients" by Łukasz Jakub Bonik.
• Robot dog climbs ladder.
• Microsoft redesigns Copilot with voice and vision.
• Google adds more AI to its search engine.
• San Francisco woman trapped in Waymo as idiots try to get her number.
• S.F. woman’s viral video shows her trapped in a Waymo by men asking for her number.
• Facebook, Instagram users outraged over AI training.
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by William Shatner.
• William Shatner is not dead (and neither are David Attenborough, Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, or Julie Andrews).
• I-XRAY.
• Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds.
• Coastal Risk Screening Tool.
• New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding.
• How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater.
• Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate.

The AI Fix

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

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