The AI Fix

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 climbs programming’s Everest; Claude gets 23,000 words of homework; and our hosts meet the worst fridge ever.Episode links:Ryan Dahl says your coding career is over.Cursor AI writes a web browser in a week.Anthropic's new constitution.Samsung Bespoke AI Family Hub fridge wins "Worst in Show".Character.AI and Google settle teen suicide lawsuit.The Assistant Axis: Understanding AI model personas.Assistant Axis visualization on Neuronpedia.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.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 touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 Google’s AI health advice could have endangered lives, and why simply asking an AI the same question twice can turn it from clueless to near-omniscient.Oh, and AI has managed to crack some famously unsolved maths problems in minutes, and Grok gains access to all of the Pentagon's networks? What could possibly go wrong?Episode links:AI cracks fantastically hard maths problem.Google removes some AI Overviews after users’ health put at risk.Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks later this month.Google reveals that you should always ask your AI twice.Employees waste 1.5 weeks a year ‘correcting’ AI output.Poison Fountain.AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them.Small amount of poisoned data can influence AI models.Poison Fountain reddit thread.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.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 touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 cross bridges, block holiday parades, and apparently chauffeur a man hiding in the trunk.Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot struggles to find anyone who actually wants to use it, while new research suggests the programmers of the future won’t need coding skills at all - just the ability to psychologically profile an AI.Episode links:How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See.Quantifying Human-AI synergy.Excruciating moment three self-driving taxis clog up street and stop moving after getting into AI standoff.Confused Waymo robotaxi snarls traffic at popular LA festival after it panics and stalls.Waymo gets stuck during boat parade.I ordered a Waymo for my daughter and a random was in the trunk. Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot.New AI Tells Children That Santa Isn’t Real.Meet AI Santa.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.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 touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 with hyper-realistic billionaire heads wander around pooping NFT “excrement samples” out of their rear ends.Plus - Graham tells a cautionary tale of Google’s Antigravity IDE enthusiastically "clearing the cache" – and asks what happens when we hand real power to agentic AIs. And Mark digs into new research that suggests LLMs perform better when you’re rude to them, and wonders what it says about the fragile, deeply weird way these systems actually work.Episode links:Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami Beach.Art installation depicts billionaires as robot dogs.75kg EngineAI robot is ready to punch your lights out.Jensen Huang thinks AI is going to create one very wacky new job.DeepSeek is back!Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of my whole drive.Google Antigravity’s Turbo mode erased my drive partition?! Really, the ‘smartest’ AI?Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.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 touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 evidence, Claude hallucinates its way through espionage, and China allegedly uses American AI for hacking.Mark asks the big question everyone is avoiding: are we in an AI bubble? Some are loudly shouting "yes" - even as trillions are still being hurled into data centres large enough to blot out the sun.Plus an AI that needed a lie down after being asked one difficult question.Episode links:False robot alien spider story is invading social media.I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone!What to know about the AI-generated country song topping Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart.The AI Fix theme tune.If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The case against superintelligent AI.What if the loved ones we've lost could be part of our future?In a first, F-22 pilot controls wingman drone from cockpit, General Atomics says.Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign.China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work.The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops.Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.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 touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 an attempt to buy AI-generated jokes, and Mark asks a terrifying question: if you make an LLM “notice its noticing,” does it start sounding... conscious?Episode links:More AI gaffes in the courtroom.Robot sheds its skin to prove it is a robot.Robot chair walks, climbs and folds itself.Project suncatcher: chips in space.Robot dogs are burying nuclear waste.Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh.The AI Fix episode 8: Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest joke.Pro comedians tried using ChatGPT and Google Gemini to write their jokes – these were the hilariously unfunny results.LaughGPT.Witscript - An AI-powered joke-writing assistant.JOKER 2025: Humour in the Machine.New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.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 touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy