The AI Fix

In episode 75 of The AI Fix, a Claude-powered robot gets so anxious about its dying battery that it composes a Broadway musical about stress and announces it’s “achieved consciousness and chosen chaos.” Also: an 18-month psychological study reveals five reasons why ChatGPT is a dangerously bad therapist, Elon Musk’s million-robot army, a politician loses a debate with a dreadful AI deepfake, a tin...

In episode 74 of The AI Fix, we meet Amazon's AI-powered delivery glasses, an AI TV presenter who doesn't exist, and an Ohio lawmaker who wants to stop people from marrying their chatbot. Also, we learn how Geoffrey Hinton and Steve Wozniak have teamed up with the unlikely coupling of will.i.am and Steve Bannon to pull the brakes on "super-intelligence." Meanwhile, Graham wonders i...

In episode 73 of The AI Fix, AI now writes more web content than humans and more books by ex-British prime ministers than ex-British prime ministers. Mark eats a dodgy prawn, Google discovers a new pathway to treating cancer, a lawyer gets skewered for using AI over and over again, and a US general declares that he's outsourced his brain to ChatGPT. Also in this episode, Graham discovers that...

In episode 72 of The AI Fix, GPT-5's "secret sauce" turns out to be phrases from adult websites, Irish police beg TikTokers to stop faking AI home intruders, Jeff Bezos pitches gigawatt data centers in space, OpenAI rolls out Agent Kit for drag-and-drop agents, and a Chinese startup unveils the creepiest robot head ever. Meanwhile, Graham looks askance at corporate America’s AI obsessi...

In episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at the ICPC World Finals, Claude Sonnet 4.5 codes for 30 hours straight, and someone builds a 5-million-parameter transformer entirely inside Minecraft....

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...

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 would...

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 d...

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 dist...

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 i...

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 calculat...

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 le...

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 G...

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 u...

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 "cl...

In episode 60 of The AI Fix, we learn why Grok might be Elon Musk's bid for digital immortality, how Meta is building a Manhattan-sized data centre called Prometheus, how AI is helping create carbon-sucking concrete, and are bewildered that 2000 people "work" at the Candy Crush company. Plus Graham takes a look at Elon's latest creations: a giggling anime girlfriend desperate for y...

In episode 59 of the AI Fix, our hosts ponder whether AIs need a “disagreement dial”, Mark wonders what he could do with an AI-powered “drug design engine”, Graham plays Wolfenstein instead of working, a robot graduates from high school, and a popular rock group is unmasked as an AI fever dream. Graham explains why Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and Mark reveals which AI is most likely to betray y...

In episode 58 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a pair of AI headphones that don't electrocute you, Microsoft invents "medical superintelligence", Chucky opens a hotel, some robot footballers fall over, Jony Ive invents a $6 billion pen, and Malcolm Gladwell fears a dystopian future full of children playing joyfully in the street. Graham discovers that the number 27 holds a special pla...

In episode 57 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an AI “dream recorder”, Mark Zuckerberg tantalises OpenAI staff with $100 million signing bonuses, Graham finds out why robot butlers sit in chairs, Wikipedia holds the line against AI slop, an AI cat collar can tell you if your cat is annoyed by its AI cat collar, and some German scientists accidentally create a new AI Fix slogan. Graham reveals tha...

In episode 56 of The AI Fix, Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight, a woman describes her husband falling in love with ChatGPT as "not ideal", WhatsApp's AI helper isn't helpful, Graham serenades a pack of headless robot dogs with his rendition of "Don't stop me now", and our hosts debate whether AI turning our brains to porridge is actually a bad thing. Graham tells the...

In episode 55 of The AI Fix, Gemini thinks a little meth won't hurt, Mark realises what a terrifying 45mph "robot bird" is really for, Graham finds a surprising number of TikTokers in the bible, an AI discovers dust on Mars, Google forgets what year it is, and Apple finally enters the AI chat. Graham finds out what happened when ChatGPT took on 1979's Atari Video Chess at his favou...

In episode 54 of The AI Fix, Graham saves humanity with a CAPTCHA, Mark wonders whether AI can suffer, ChatGPT throws shade at Abba's Björn Ulvaeus, an AI called Jack ask if you want fries with that, an artist invents AI bird poop, and Eric Schmidt says we should unplug AI when it gets direct access to weapons. Graham finds out what happens when a rag tag team of AIs is given 30 days to raise...

In episode 53 of The AI Fix, our hosts suspect the CEO of Duolingo has been kidnapped by an AI, Sergey Brin says AIs work better if you threaten them with physical violence, Graham wonders how you put a collar on a headless robot dog, Mark asks why kickboxing robots wear head guards, and the CEO of Anthropic says AI could wipe out entry-level jobs. Graham asks your favourite AI how it feels about...

In episode 52 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a non-existent musical about garlic bread, Graham shares a summer reading list of books that don't exist, Mark feels nauseous after watching a video of Sam Altman and Jony Ive waffling about products that don't exist, some non-existent robots stack empty crates in a factory that doesn't exist, and OpenAI releases Codex, an AI agent destined...

In episode 51 of The AI Fix, a Greek man's marriage is destroyed after ChatGPT reads his coffee, a woman dumps her husband to marry an AI called Leo, and Graham wonders whether it's time to upload his brain into a lunchbox-packing robot. Meanwhile, a humanoid robot goes full Michael Crawford in a Chinese factory, the UK government launches an AI to read angry public consultations, and Mark...