Join tech veterans Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley as they dive headfirst into the hilarious, bizarre, and downright mind-boggling world of artificial intelligence, looking into deepfakes, machine learning, and whether it’s too late to make peace with our robot overlords. It’s not your typical AI podcast… Winner of Best New Podcast 2025. https://theaifix.show Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus at https://theaifix.show/plus
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AI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AI
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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 accidenta…
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ChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupid
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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 t…
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Atari beats ChatGPT at chess, and Apple says AI "thinking" is an illusion
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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 197…
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Will AI collapse under its own garbage, and AI charity “Hunger Games”
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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 …
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An AI uses blackmail to save itself, and threats make AIs work better
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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.…
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AI adopts its own social norms, and AI DJ creates diversity scandal
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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…
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Divorce by coffee grounds, and why AI robots need your brain
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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…
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AI brings dead man back for killer’s trial, and the judge loves it
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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!" …
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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 …
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AI Jesus, and is the AI Singularity almost upon us?
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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…
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An AI is the best computer programmer in the world
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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 be…
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AI can read minds now, and is your co-host a clone?
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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 ga…
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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…
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AI-generated malware, and a stunning AI breakthrough
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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 i…
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I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
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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 …
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AIs with anxiety, and why AIs don’t know what happened
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In episode 42 of the AI Fix, our hosts discover why ads for the Neo Gamma robot are so sinister, Graham plays peek-a-boo with a crow, humans give up writing, an AI designs a drug, an upstart AI agent gets everyone’s attention, and a talking fish offers our hosts some sage advice. Graham wonders if AIs have feelings, and Mark introduces Graham to th…
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Can AIs be psychopaths, and why we should be AI optimists
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In episode 41 of the AI Fix, our hosts learn that society needs to be completely reordered by December, Grok accuses Trump of being a Russian asset, Graham discovers that parents were wrong about computer games all along, and Mark wonders if a kung-fu kicking robot from Unitree is the hero that we need. Graham gives an AI a Rorschach test and learn…
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ChatGPT saved my life, and making evil AIs by accident
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In episode 40 of the AI Fix, Graham meets a shape-shifting GOAT, a robot dog gets wet, Mark likes Claude 3.7 Sonnet, OpenAI releases its dullest model yet, Grok 3 needs to go home and have a lie down, and everyone loses their minds over two AI agents booking a hotel room using 90s-era modem dial-up sounds. Graham tells the incredible story of a wom…
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AIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhere
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In episode 39 of the AI Fix, our hosts watch a drone and a robot dog shoot fireworks at each other, xAI launches Grok 3, Mark explains that AIs can design genomes now, a robot starts a punch up, Zuck becomes a mind reader, an AI cracks a ten-year science question in two days, and an anatomically accurate synthetic human recreates a terrifying scene…
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AI proves time travel is impossible (but still can’t draw fingers)
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In episode 38 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a robot they actually like, Sam Altman teases GPT-5 and trolls Elon Musk, a robot dog grows arms, an AI compliments Graham, Mark worries about "gradual disempowerment", an octopus pretends to be a glove, and a listener reveals an entirely new reason to worry about AI. Graham's plan to make his fortune…
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DeepSeek is a security dumpster fire, and quicksand for AI
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In episode 37 of The AI Fix, Google Gemini gets the munchies, the wettest country in the world can’t find any water, an escalator tries to eat Graham, o3-mini can’t rub two sticks together, and OpenAI invents an AI that can do “a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable tasks in the world” but nobody notices. Graham wonders why his chil…
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In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America's AI hegemony. Graham also discovers a remarkably f***ing effective way to remove AI snippets, a personal mobility robot gets a bit over-excited, some…
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Project Stargate, the AI emergency, and batsh*t AI cryonics
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In episode 35 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn who the 175th best programmer in the world is, the AI supervillains put on suits for President Trump, a "not imaginary" AI turns out to be imaginary, OpenAI releases Operator and teases o3-mini, and Anthropic predicts that superintelligence is only three years away. Graham considers giving his money, pet…
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Fake Brad Pitt and why AI means we will lose our jobs
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In episode 34 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch in horror as a vacuum cleaner sprouts a robotic arm and tiny little robot legs, a mind-reading helps a man chat up some French students, a robot dog runs as fast as Usain Bolt, and AI podcast hosts get impatient with their listeners. Meanwhile Graham isn’t tempted by NVIDIA’s $3000 supercomputer, and Mar…
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AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon's "unhinged" mode
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In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can't draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips a robot's face off. Graham explains why Elon Musk has invent…
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