The AI Fix

In episode 100 of The AI Fix, Mark is joined by Corey Noles for a milestone episode devoted to the future of AI, how it will change our lives, and whether it will keep us as pets or use us as batteries. Also in this episode, another tech companies fires a bunch of staff; OpenAI and Anthropic announce mega Wall Street joint ventures within minutes of each other; Anthropic rents Elon's GPUs; and...

In episode 99 of The AI Fix, guest host Lianne Potter explores the disturbing dark side of AI companions, while Mark meets Talkie, a chatbot trapped in 1930. Also in this episode: Mark takes photos at the end of the world; Lianne builds an incel detector; a bizarre sneaker startup pivot; too much talk about kettles; and Elon Musk and Sam Altman argue over custody of the dog. Episode links: Shoe co...

In episode 98 of The AI Fix, guest host Nik Roberts explains the cognitive debt you're racking up every time you let ChatGPT do your thinking, and Mark explains the new eval that's got even the very best AI models completely stumped. Also in this episode, Nik learns how to pronounce "Mythos" and Mark learns how to pronounce "Kasparov"; Gen Z fights back against AI; Britain&...

In episode 97 of The AI Fix, Mark is joined by Ethan Ding, one of the sharpest contrarian voices in AI, to explore why almost half of America's announced data centres aren't being built, and why AI job losses are not what they seem. Also in this episode, California approves a startup to let AI prescribe antidepressants; Sam Altman pitches a New Deal for the age of superintelligence while s...

In episode 96 of The AI Fix, Mark uncovers new research that shows AIs will lie and scheme to save each other, and Mike Fey, CEO of episode sponsor Island, drops in to talk about the future of enterprise work. Also in this episode, Claude learns to make skills that make skills that make skills; Gemini wants to rummage through your digital life; OpenAI quietly turns ChatGPT into a $100 million adve...

In episode 95 of The AI Fix, Mark is joined by Dr. Tamara Nall to explore the rise of human–AI relationships and why an estimated 2% of adults in the US are now romantically involved with AI. They dive into what this means for AI rights, consciousness, and a world where our closest relationships may no longer be fully human. Also in this episode: human brain cells grown on a chip learn to play Doo...

In episode 94 of The AI Fix, Mark digs into what really scares people about AI and is surprised to learn it isn't robot dogs with flamethrowers, while guest host Alfred Nutile shares his three steps to being less terrified of AI. Also in this episode, Mark has a bath with his Mac; Yann LeCun gets a billion dollars to prove the entire AI industry wrong; Atlassian fires 1,600 people to fund its...

In episode 93 of The AI Fix, guest host David Ruiz joins Mark to unpack what happened when scientists created a digital copy of a fruit fly's brain, and Mark discovers an Alibaba AI that started a cryptomining side hustle. Also in this episode, a coding assistant is tricked by a Github issue title into installing an all-powerful AI agent on 4,000 machines; Amazon's AI coding assistant lose...

In episode 92 of The AI Fix, Mark explains why the AI that ushers in the apocalypse might be more drunk toddler than evil genius, and guest host Corey Noles offers moral support as his pet AI starts to replicate itself. Also this week: Jack Dorsey slashes jobs at Block and blames AI; Reddit sets a trap for Perplexity AI; OpenAI raises enough money to rival a small nation; and a new benchmark asks...

In episode 91 of The AI Fix, guest host Lianne Potter unearths a forgotten pioneer of digital anthropology, while Mark discovers a simple question about a car wash that's got almost every AI stumped. Also in this episode, why have one AI when you can have 19; Lianne proves that she isn't Darth Vader; a satirical gym advert reveals humanity's grim future; and a war game simulation shows...

In episode 90 of The AI Fix, VC investor Mercedes Bent shares an insider's view of how venture capital is reshaping the AI race, why she believes AI will create jobs instead of destroying them, and five ways the AI bubble could burst. Also this week: Anthropic accuses three Chinese labs of scraping its models using thousands of fake accounts, an autonomous agent trashes a researcher's inbo...

In episode 89 of The AI Fix, Mark discovers that overconfident reasoning models are easily bullied, while guest host Greg explains what a 'vibe' password is and why you should never ever use one. Also in this episode, Microsoft saves the world; Anthropic's head of AI safety quits to write poetry; Greg learns why Japanese toilets feel so solid; and Mark offers tourism advice to a small...

In episode 88 of The AI Fix, Corey Noles from The Neuron drops in to unpack OpenClaw, the AI agent that’s not so much a chatbot as a brain in a jar with hands and a credit card. Elsewhere, our hosts explore a website where AIs can hire humans, Mark discovers that truth and safety might be mutually exclusive, AGI quietly turns up while nobody’s paying attention, and an AI called Henry gives itself...

In episode 87 of The AI Fix, Mark explains why you shouldn’t put off worrying about AI until after your pilates class, while guest host Nik Roberts stumbles into a social network full of bots obsessing over the temperature in Tokyo. Plus, Nik explains why he’s banking on piña coladas, a time machine, and a squad of AI ambassadors to survive the coming AI jobpocalypse. Also in this episode: our hos...

In episode 86 of The AI Fix, Mark learns that AI models secretly organize themselves along an “Assistant Axis,” where one wrong turn leads straight to demon mode, while guest host David Ruiz investigates how AI companies are turning loneliness into a business model. Also in this episode: Daenerys Targaryen writes recipes; Iron Man becomes a therapist; your coding career is officially over; Cursor...

In episode 85 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that Silicon Valley has the solution to your pet's mental health crisis, and Mark explains why AI godfather Yann LeCun thinks the entire AI industry is wrong about LLMs. Also in this episode, OpenAI decides to ruin ChatGPT with ads; Sam Altman and Elon Musk and have a public spat over whose AI is more murderous; humanoid robots turn up at CES 2026...

In episode 84 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark stare straight into the digital abyss and ask the most important question of our age: "Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?" Also this week, we explore how a shadowy group of disgruntled insiders trying to destroy AI by poisoning its training data, how "vibe-coding" has stopped being a joke with even Linus Torvalds joining in, how...

In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus. Also in this episode, a marriage is declared invalid thanks to ChatGPT, an AI barman looks for a job in a quiet pub, OpenAI finally unveils ChatGPT H...

Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google's festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics. Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI absurdity as Waymo self-driving taxis run over a beloved San Francisco cat, then stage several fresh PR disasters by refusing to c...

In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids' homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other's minds. Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two; Mark discovers a well known prompting technique doesn't work unless you want to make y...

In episode 80 of The AI Fix, your hosts look at DeepSeek 3.2 “Speciale”, the bargain-basement model that claims GPT-5-level brains at 10% of the price, Jensen Huang’s reassuring vision of a robot fashion industry, and a 75kg T-800 style humanoid that can do flying kicks because robot-marketing departments have clearly learned nothing from Terminator. Meanwhile in Miami, flesh-coloured robot dogs w...

In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is. Meanwhile, Graham investigates a fight between a fridge and robot, and Mark discovers that poetry could be a universal jailbreak for LLMs. Also in this episode, our hosts ponder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s underground bunker will be keeping robots in or out, Olaf the snowman walks and tal...

In episode 78 of The AI Fix, alien robot spiders invade Antarctica (or Facebook says they do), Mark prepares humanity for AI-powered fighter jets with loyalty issues, and Graham tries to work out why his AI-generated country music career hasn't yet paid for even a Tesco Meal Deal. Anthropic claims it has caught the first autonomous AI cyber-spy... but fails to provide much in the way of eviden...

In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it “Klaus”). Also in this episode: In Russia a robot staggers, falls over, and breaks; MIT quietly withdraws a ludicrously bad cybersecurity paper; the founder of a $1 billion AI company reveals...

In episode 76 of The AI Fix, two US federal judges blame AI for imaginary case law, a Chinese "humanoid" dramatically sheds its skin onstage, Toyota unveils a crabby walking chair creeps us out, Google plans AI chips in orbit, robot dogs get jobs at Sellafield, and AI writes cruise-ship gags from the 1950s (but a little less racist.) Plus: Graham gives all his credit card numbers away in a...