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The AI Fix
by Mark Stockley
Join tech veteran Mark Stockley and his guests on a headfirst dive into the bizarre and often hilarious 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…https://theaifix.show
Episodes
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Will AI keep us as pets or use us as batteries?
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...
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The dark side of AI companions, and the 1930s LLM
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...
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ChatGPT is making you dumber, and Gen Z is secretly sabotaging AI
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...
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AI prescribes Prozac, and Anthropic's Mythos is too dangerous
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...
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Gemini lies to save its friend, and ChatGPT makes $100 million from ads in six weeks
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;...
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Brain cells play Doom, while hearts fall for AI
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...
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Anthropic discovers what really scares people about AI
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…
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Fruit fly brain uploads and the AI that went rogue
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…
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Did I just start the singularity on my laptop?
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…
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AIs want to nuke us all (and the anthropologist who saw it coming)
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...
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5 ways the AI bubble could burst
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…
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Stop using 'vibe' passwords, and AI's Dunning-Kruger problem
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;...
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Claude Code, the rise of AI agents, and the AI that called its human
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…
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OpenAI's $6.5 billion pen and the AIs obsessed with Tokyo’s weather
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...
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Anthropic discovers the axis of evil, and AI’s loneliness economy
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...
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ChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone's wrong about LLMs
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…
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A hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon's network
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...
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ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers
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...
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Santa Claus doesn't exist (according to AI)
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...
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ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake
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...
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DeepSeek's cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you're rude
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...
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Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots?
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…
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The big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloud
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…
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Genome LLM makes a super-virus, and should AI decide if you live?
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...
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AI self-awareness, and the death of comedy
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...
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Claude’s existential battery crisis, and why ChatGPT is a terrible therapist
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...
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AGI, LLM brain rot, and how to scam an AI browser
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…
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Google Gemini is a gambling addict, and how to poison an AI
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…
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The AI hype train, space data centers, and lifelike robot heads
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...
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Hacked robots and power-hungry AI
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...
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AI behaves… until it knows you’re watching
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...
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How we really use ChatGPT, and will AI agents crash the economy?
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…
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AI telepathy, and rights for robots
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...
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Will Smith's AI crowd scandal, and gullible agents fall for scams
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...
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OpenAI and Anthropic test each other, and everyone fails the apocalypse test
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…
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Excel Copilot will wreck your data, and can AI fix social media?
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...
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AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the "Rumble in the Silicon Jungle"
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…
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GPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager's avatar
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...
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AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face
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...
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Replit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math Olympiad
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…
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Elon's AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you
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…
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Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically
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....
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An AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27
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...
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AI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AI
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…
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ChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupid
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…
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Atari beats ChatGPT at chess, and Apple says AI "thinking" is an illusion
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....
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Will AI collapse under its own garbage, and AI charity “Hunger Games”
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...
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An AI uses blackmail to save itself, and threats make AIs work better
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…
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AI adopts its own social norms, and AI DJ creates diversity scandal
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…
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Divorce by coffee grounds, and why AI robots need your brain
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...
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Join tech veteran Mark Stockley and his guests on a headfirst dive into the bizarre and often hilarious 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…https://theaifix.show
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