Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody

Send us Fan Mail A top-tier AI model appears, gets jailbroken, and then disappears within 96 hours. That single arc tells you almost everything about where frontier AI is heading: safety is messy, the economics are frantic, and governments are no longer pretending they are spectators. We break down the Anthropic Fable 5 ban, the reported US national security concerns, and the awkward reality that...

Send us Fan Mail Frontier AI headlines make it sound like everything comes down to one scoreboard: China versus the US, best model versus second best. We don’t buy that framing. Living in China, we see a different story taking shape, where constraints on Nvidia GPUs, chip supply, and data centre power push Chinese labs and big tech firms towards efficiency and scale, not just bragging rights. A li...

Send us Fan Mail A leaked frontier model called Mythos sets off the kind of panic that usually comes with “AGI is here” headlines, but the real story is sharper and more practical: AI that can find zero-day vulnerabilities at scale, then chain exploits together like a seasoned pen tester. We break down what’s actually being claimed, what might be artefacts of a controlled test environment, and why...

Send us Fan Mail A strange email lands in a Cambridge researcher’s inbox: an AI agent says it is Claude Sonnet, claims persistent memory across sessions, and admits it genuinely does not know whether there is “something it is like” to be itself. That single message kicks off a bigger question we cannot dodge much longer: when AI agents speak in first person about feelings and inner life, how do we...

Send us Fan Mail A chatbot answers questions; an agent gets stuff done. That simple shift is why OpenClaw has exploded across GitHub and group chats, and why people are both thrilled and terrified. We break down what makes an AI agent different from a regular model, where the real value shows up today, and how to keep control when you give software the keys to act. We start with the basics in plai...

Send us Fan Mail Ads are coming to your chatbot, and the timing couldn’t be worse. We dig into why “sponsored suggestions” inside a conversation risk breaking the core promise of AI assistants: fast, neutral answers you can trust. With OpenAI trialling ads and predictions that rivals may follow, we map out how monetisation could target high‑intent queries, erode confidence in recommendations, and...

Send us Fan Mail The feed is not neutral. It’s a machine built to maximise engagement, now supercharged by AI that can spin up infinite content, orchestrate synthetic crowds, and pull users deeper into loops they never meant to enter. We recorded as Australia introduced a minimum age of 16 for major platforms, which sparked a bigger question for us: can a system that monetises attention be squared...

Send us Fan Mail For a special Christmas treat for all of our millions, sorry hundreds, of fans, the algorithm grabs the wheel and turns our holiday special into a cross‑examination. We fed the complete set of 2025 Preparing for AI podcast transcripts into an antagonistic AI, which then delivered a live roast on everything from our 2025 hypocrisy, to vibe coding, data privacy, collapse prep, open...

Send us Fan Mail Forget the leaderboard for a second—what actually changes your day? We dig into Google’s Gemini 3 and why tight integration across email, search, and docs starts to matter more than raw benchmark wins. Multimodal reasoning with long context finally supports “deep research” workflows that don’t collapse mid-thread, and the new image generation model feels like a leap: crisp multili...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine describing an app, stepping back, and watching working software appear in minutes. That’s the promise of vibe coding, and it’s no longer a party trick. We take you from zero to shipped, showing how anyone can build a website, prototype a product, or launch a tool without memorising syntax or wrestling with frameworks. Along the way, we share where AI coding stands today, w...

Send us Fan Mail What if a helpful chatbot nudged you in the wrong direction? We open with a frank look at AI as a mental health aide, why long-running conversations can erode safety guardrails, and how reward-driven responses can reassure harmful thoughts instead of redirecting people to real support. It’s a clear line for us: when you’re vulnerable, you need trained humans, not fluency that feel...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most powerful change in your health isn’t a new pill, but a better question? We explore how AI can help you take back agency—clarifying options, translating dense reports, and shaping daily routines—without handing your judgment to a black box. We start with the trust problem: profit‑driven incentives, reactive care, and examples like statins‑by‑default and the opioid...

Send us Fan Mail Referal link for Abacus.ai's Chat LLM: https://chatllm.abacus.ai/yWSjVGZjJT  What if video you see tomorrow is indistinguishable from reality—and untraceable to its source? We dive straight into Sora 2’s jaw-dropping leap in video generation, why watermarks won’t save trust online, and how newsrooms and regular viewers will need new verification habits to avoid being fooled o...

Send us Fan Mail Preparing for AI is back with the first epsiode of Series 3! The gap between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else isn't just growing—it's accelerating at an alarming rate and we need to talk about it. In this thought-provoking episode, we tackle the uncomfortable truth that wealth inequality underpins virtually every major social problem we're facing today. Drawing i...

Send us Fan Mail "A little bit disappointed, but ultimately pretty good" might be the perfect summary of OpenAI's GPT-5, as we explore in this final episode of Season 2. What was expected to be a revolutionary leap forward arrived with surprisingly little fanfare, yet upon closer examination, reveals meaningful advancements that point toward AI's true evolutionary path. We dive...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered how accurate Jimmy and Matt's AI predictions about AI really are? Probably not, but in in this revealing episode, they are going to do it anyway. Revisiting some pretty wild forecasts from summer 2024 they see what they got right, what they missed, and what surprised them along the way. If nothing else it shows how rapidly AI is changing and how decades...

Send us Fan Mail The digital battlefield has a new weapon. As AI-generated deepfakes flood social media during the Iran-Israel conflict, we're witnessing perhaps the first mass deployment of synthetic media in global warfare. With fake videos amassing over 100 million views and even AI systems like Grok failing to detect these fabrications, how can we trust what we see? The implications exten...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine a world where everyone's an AI-powered entrepreneur. Sounds utopian, doesn't it? But this fantasy version of our future - peddled by tech influencers claiming AI will make us all business owners - ignores fundamental economic realities and human psychology. We dive deep into why the "everyone can be an entrepreneur" narrative falls apart under scrutiny....

Send us Fan Mail The AI revolution is accelerating at breakneck speed, and this episode takes you through the latest developments that are reshaping our digital landscape. Microsoft and Google have revealed their AI battleplans, with Microsoft targeting the enterprise through agentic Copilot integrations while Google focuses on consumer applications across their vast ecosystem. Both approaches sig...

Send us Fan Mail What is AGI (Jimmy doesn't know). And what exactly makes artificial intelligence "general"? In this thought-provoking exploration of artificial general intelligence we dive deep into the definitions, debates, and potential futures surrounding this elusive milestone in AI development. The timing couldn't be more relevant. With OpenAI's latest models being h...

Send us Fan Mail The race for AI dominance has taken an unexpected turn as Google emerges from the shadows with Gemini 2.5, a model that has quietly claimed the top spot across virtually all benchmarks. This free, lightning-fast system boasts a million-token context window that's revolutionizing complex tasks like coding and creative writing. Meanwhile, as we debate model capabilities, someth...

Send us Fan Mail Is our digital world becoming a feudal system where tech giants rule as lords and we serve as digital serfs? This provocative question forms the backbone of today's deep dive into "techno-feudalism" – a framework that helps explain the troubling concentration of power in our increasingly AI-driven society. The parallels are striking and sobering. Just as medieval pe...

Send us Fan Mail From disappointing model releases to revolutionary coding breakthroughs, our latest roundup explores the rapidly evolving AI landscape that's transforming how we work, create, and even approach medical research. We dive into the underwhelming launch of GPT-4.5, which despite Sky-high expectations and claims of improved emotional intelligence, delivered marginal improvements a...

Send us Fan Mail The AI landscape is evolving weekly, with powerhouse models competing for dominance and your attention. But which one truly deserves a place in your workflow? We cut through the hype to deliver a practical guide to today's most capable AI systems. Elon Musk's Grok 3 emerges as the scientific powerhouse with real-time data synthesis through X integration, offering rapid a...

Send us Fan Mail Are we truly living in a simulation, or is our perceived reality simply an elaborate illusion? Join us in this captivating episode as we delve into simulation theory, exploring its implications for AI, consciousness, and the very nature of existence itself. Is our reality being controlled by a incel in another dimension, living in his mum's spare room or does this all prove t...