Join tech veterans Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley as they dive headfirst into the hilarious, bizarre, and downright mind-boggling world of artificial intellige...
AIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhere
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 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 touchOur Sponsors:* Check out the new season of "Compiler", an original podcast from Red Hat. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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AI proves time travel is impossible (but still can’t draw fingers)
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.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 touchOur Sponsors:* Check out the new season of "Compiler", an original podcast from Red Hat. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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DeepSeek is a security dumpster fire, and quicksand for AI
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.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 touchOur Sponsors:* Check out the new season of "Compiler", an original podcast from Red Hat. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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A DeepSeek special
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.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 touchOur Sponsors:* Check out the new season of "Compiler", an original podcast from Red Hat. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Project Stargate, the AI emergency, and batsh*t AI cryonics
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.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 touchOur Sponsors:* Check out the new season of "Compiler", an original podcast from Red Hat. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Join tech veterans Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley as they dive headfirst into the hilarious, bizarre, and downright mind-boggling world of artificial intelligence, looking into deepfakes, machine learning, and whether it’s too late to make peace with our robot overlords. It’s not your typical AI podcast… https://theaifix.show
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