In episode 50 of The AI Fix, AI brings a slain man back from the dead so he can appear at his killer's trial, Mark gets a mysterious phone call, Trump uses AI to become Pope Donald the First, Zuck ponders the nature of friendship, Apple says the quiet part out loud, xAI springs a leak, and a philosophy professor says "so long weather forecasters!"

Graham explains why researchers in Oxford have made a digital twin of your grandmother, and Mark looks at the bizarre case of road rage victim Chris Pelkey.

Episode links:

• Trump posts AI image of himself as pope.
• Mark Zuckerberg made us lonelier. Now he wants us to be friends with AI.
• Google plunges as Apple hints at AI search for browsers.
• xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs.
• The people refusing to use AI.
• Can AI care for your loved ones?
• inTouch.
• I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered.
• AI version of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court.

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In episode 49 of The AI Fix, OpenAI kills off a sycophantic bot, our hosts are introduced to a prophetic Bosnian rock band, Meta puts an electric fence around its llamas, Mark reveals he's never tried covering a robot with olive oil, and Graham leaves a stern message for his great-great-grandchildren.

Mark sits a “smarty-pants” test, an AI becomes a crime boss, and Graham explains how a decades-old typo is poisoning the scientific well.

Episode links:

• Dubioza Kolektiv feat. Robby Megabyte - Take my Job Away.
• The AI Fix theme tune.
• Sharing new open source protection tools and advancements in AI privacy and security.
• AiMOGA Robots Selling Cars?
• How AI caught child abuser who fled to 'paradise'.
• The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course.
• Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it.
• A glitch in AI training data is plaguing scientific papers.
• Operating muli-client influence networks across platforms.

The AI Fix

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In episode 48 of The AI Fix, OpenAI releases the first AI models capable of novel scientific discoveries, ChatGPT users are sick of its relentlessly positive tone, our hosts say "Alexa" a lot, OpenAI eyes a social network of its own, and some robots run a half-marathon.

Graham discovers AI Jesus and a great offer on some Casper mattresses, and Mark wonders if the technological singularity is actually much closer than we thought.

Episode links:

• Humanoid robots race humans in a half-marathon in Beijing.
• OpenAI introduces o3 and o4-mini.
• Cluely causes CEO to be suspended over AI cheating.
• Cluely promo video.
• Is OpenAI planning a social network?
• Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about its relentlessly positive tone.
• Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice.
• Jesus resurrected as an influencer who you can make video calls in real-time - thanks to AI.
• AI Jesus.
• Greg Brockman says o3 and o4-mini produce good and useful novel ideas.
• Eric Schmidt says programmers will be replaced by AI.

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In episode 47 of The AI Fix, o3 becomes the best competitive programmer in the world, hacked California crosswalks speak with the voice of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Meta introduces a herd of Llamas, Graham explains what a "lollipop lady" is, and Google talks to some dolphins.

Graham discovers an AI that's just a warehouse full of people, o3 becomes the best computer programmer in the world, and Mark wonders if software engineering will be the first job to fall to AI.

Episode links:

• People are utilizing ChatGPT to turn their dogs into humans.
• The cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are speaking from hacked crosswalks.
• DolphinGemma: Google AI model understands dolphin chatter.
• DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication.
• Meta introduces the Llama 4 “herd”.
• Tech CEO Charged In Artificial Intelligence Investment Fraud Scheme.
• Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines.
• Sarah Friar talks about A-SWE.

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In episode 46 of The AI Fix, China trolls US tariffs, a microscopic pogoing flea-bot makes a tiny leap forward for robotics, Google unveils the Agent2Agent protocol, a robot dog is so cute it ruins Graham's entire day, and Europe commits €20 billion and all of its buzzwords to five moonshot AI gigafactories.

Graham brings his clone to work for a game of “Cluley or Cloney”, and Mark introduces Graham to a mind-reading technology that could transform the lives of people with serious neurological disorders.

Episode links:

• Loona - the intelligent Petbot.
• Robots have learnt to hop to a height of 20 cm.
• Tiny hopping robots.
• Google announces A2A, the Agent2Agent Protocol.
• Donald Trump’s education secretary talks about “A1”.
• Linda McMahon speaks at 2025 ASU+GSV Summit.
• China mocks Trump’s tariffs with AI video of US sweatshop workers: ‘Make America Great Again’.
• AI murder predictor catches killers before they strike.
• UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system.
• EU to build AI gigafactories in €20bn push to catch up with US and China.
• ElevenLabs.
• Magic genies, killer robots and AI friends – all the best quotes from Elon Musk's chat with Rishi Sunak in London
• PauseAI.
• A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication.
• Video of streaming brain-to-voice communication.

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In episode 45 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover that ChatGPT is running the world, Mark learns that mattress companies have scientists, Gen Z has nightmares about AI, OpenAI gets a bag, Graham eats too many cheese sandwiches, and too much training makes AIs over-sensitive.

Mark reveals why he's got beef with cows, GPT-4.5 beats the Turing test, and Anthropic’s brain scanner reveals how AIs really think.

Episode links:

• OpenAI Secures $40 Billion to Pursue Next-Gen AI.
• Lots of people are having nightmares… about AI.
• Researchers warn of ‘catastrophic overtraining’ in LLMs.
• Hackers can probe your robot dog’s backdoor.
• White House appears to use AI in tariff rate calculations.
• Can you tell a human from an AI?
• Tracing the thoughts of a large language model.

The AI Fix

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In episode 44 of The AI Fix, ChatGPT won’t build a crystal meth lab, GPT-4o improves the show’s podcast art, some students manage to screw in a lightbulb, Google releases Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental and nobody notices, and Mark invents a clock for measuring AI time.

Graham explains how ChatGPT’s love for Young Adult fiction can be used to turn it into an evil malware developer, and Mark looks at the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark and a staggering leap forward in AI intelligence.

Episode links:

• Engineers develop hybrid robot that balances strength and flexibility - and can screw in a lightbulb.
• Gemini 2.5.
• Introducing 4o Image Generation.
• New LLM Jailbreak Technique Enables Easy Creation of Password-Stealing Malware.
• New AI Attack Compromises Google Chrome’s Password Manager.
• The ARC Prize.
• The ARC test with which Mark challenged Graham.

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In episode 43 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a robot that isn't terrifying, a newspaper shuns journalists in favour of AI, Graham watches a robot dog learn to stand, an AI computer programmer develops a familiar attitude, and New York tries to stop its humans arming their robots.

Graham worries about AI vomit, a Norwegian man is falsely accused of murder by ChatGPT, and Mark looks at why we're suddenly surrounded by news about robots.

Episode links:

• Introducing IntuiCell.
• New York law would ban civilians from weaponizing robots.
• Jensen Huang Introduces Blue: NVIDIA & Disney Research’s AI Robot.
• AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead.
• AI can forecast the weather in seconds without needing supercomputers.
• Italian Newspaper Creates Entirely AI-Generated Edition.
• AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer.
• Exclusive: Russian disinformation floods AI chatbots, study finds.
• Walk, Run, Crawl, RL Fun.
• Elon Musk: 10 billion humanoid robots by 2040 at $20K-$25K each.
• Elon Musk tells Ted Cruz he puts the odds of “killer robots annihilating humanity” at 10-20%.

The AI Fix

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