The AI Fix
Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley
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… https://theaifix.show
Can AIs be psychopaths, and why we should be AI optimists
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 learns about "Norman" the psychopathic AI, and Mark discovers why we should actually be optimistic about AI.Plus - don’t miss our featured interview with Ma
Mar 11, • 42:50
ChatGPT saved my life, and making evil AIs by accident
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 woman whose life was saved after ChatGPT told her to go to the emergency room, stat! And Mark explains how just a little negativity made GPT-4o bad to the
Mar 4, • 40:25
AIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhere
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 from The Long Good Friday.Graham learns that it always pays to be polite before running over 15 people with a train, and Mark discovers why AIs value
Feb 25, • 41:09
AI proves time travel is impossible (but still can’t draw fingers)
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 is scuppered by an AI with opinions on time travel, and Mark investigates an intriguing question about a six-fingered glove.Episode links:
Feb 18, • 42:55
DeepSeek is a security dumpster fire, and quicksand for AI
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 childhood was full of Triffids and quicksand, and discovers a way to trap overstepping AI crawlers in an endless maze, while Mark investigates the appallin
Feb 11, • 35:02
A DeepSeek special
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 aliens regret installing an FTP server, and Mark explains what o3-mini owes to Spinal Tap.Episode links:OpenAI releases o3-mini.Saying F*&! Disables G
Feb 4, • 44:32
Project Stargate, the AI emergency, and batsh*t AI cryonics
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, pets, and vital organs to a YouTuber with an AI, and Mark looks into Project Stargate and the geo-politics of AI.Episode links:Trump announces the
Jan 28, • 39:41
Fake Brad Pitt and why AI means we will lose our jobs
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 Mark explains his emergency manoeuvre for avoiding karaoke.Graham shares a heartbreaking tale of a French woman’s encounter with someone who owns a copy
Jan 21, • 44:28
AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon's "unhinged" mode
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 rip a robot's face off.Graham explains why Elon Musk has invented an "unhinged" version of Grok and every Tesla will soon come fitted with a built-in racist uncle, and Mark looks into the disturbing phenomenon of "a
Jan 14, • 41:25
Agentic AI, killer robot fridges, and the robosexual revolution
In episode 32 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn the meaning of "poronkusema", Mark discovers his dream job, a school tries using AI instead of teachers, the "Godfather of AI" says AI will see us as toddlers, and Graham lifts the lid on the hidden threat of killer robot fridges.Mark explains why 2025 is the year of the autonomous AI agent, and Graham investigates the robosexual revolution, and the claim that robots will be more popular than men in the bedroom this year.Episode links:Episode 30: Chat
Jan 7, • 44:51
Replay: AI doesn't exist
Graham and Mark are taking a break for the new year this week, but they'll be back for a new episode at the usual time next week.In the meantime, here's another chance to hear one of their favourite episodes again. The very first episode of "The AI Fix" from April 2024...Graham attempts to convince Mark that AI doesn't, in fact, exist. We aren't going to spoil it for you, but we can tell you that his theory starts in a bad hotel room in San Francisco, features some Wizard
Dec 31, 2024 • 13:51
ChatGPT reveals the devastating truth about Santa (Merry Christmas!)
In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven't left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI artist now has a personality, and ant-like robots join forces to lob each other over things.Graham discovers that Google Gemini is checking its homework by asking unskilled humans to simply take a punt at the right answer, and Mark uses an AI to reveal the devastating truth about Santa.Episod
Dec 24, 2024 • 40:28
AI on OnlyFans, and the bot that wants to be a billionaire
In episode 29 of The AI Fix, an AI company makes the bold step of urging us to "stop hiring humans", Graham is wrong about GB AI, parents prepare their kids for the imminent Moxie-mageddon, Google releases Gemini 2.0, and a robot is found dead at work and nobody knows why.Graham inspects the AI Miss World competition for research purposes and wonders if our hosts should start an OnlyFans, and Mark meets an "evolving" AI that wants to be a billionaire.Episode links:AI Firm’s ‘Stop
Dec 17, 2024 • 41:40
Robot dogs with bombs, and who is David Mayer?
In episode 28 of The AI Fix, the new version of ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of telling Mark how to defend himself from a flame thrower-wielding robot dog in his living room, Graham loses 30,000 robots on the head of a pin, our hosts meet a human washing machine from the fifties, and Dr Who finds a new way to get worse.Graham wonders if teaching robot dogs to drop bombs is a good idea, and Mark meets ChatGPT's answer to Voldemort: David Mayer.Episode links:12 Days of OpenAI.Line up t
Dec 10, 2024 • 48:14
Why is AI full of real-life Bond villains?
In episode 27 of The AI Fix, robots catch a ball, lead a revolt, and enjoy a juicy steak. Or do they? Graham struggles with a Micro USB cable, a student struggles with a school's anti-AI rules, and OpenAI's Sora video generation AI is leaked by hacktivists.Graham circles back into an outside-the-box deep-dive where he synergises the low-hanging paradigm shift on a Zoom call with himself, and Mark wonders why we're suddenly awash with real-life Bond villains.Episode links:Cooking With
Dec 3, 2024 • 45:08
Would AI kill sentient robots, and is water wet?
In episode 26 of The AI Fix, an AI does surgery on pork chops, holographic Jesus wants your consent to use cookies, Mark opens the pod bay doors, our hosts discover OpenAI's couch potato health coach, and Graham finds a robot made of drain pipes.Graham pits Mark against an AI in a morality quiz that asks “would you kill sentient robots?”, and “are lobsters more delicious than cats?”, while a surprisingly useful answer from ChatGPT leads Mark on a quest for world peace.Episode links:OpenAI’s
Nov 26, 2024 • 40:51
Beware of the superintelligence, and a spam-eating AI super gran
In episode 25 of The AI Fix, humanity creates a satellite called Skynet and then loses it, Graham folds proteins in the comfort of his living room, a Florida man gets a robot dog, Grok rats on its own boss, and a podcast host discovers Brazil nuts.Graham meets an elderly grandmother who's taking on the AI scammers, our hosts learn why Google is listening to phone calls, and Mark looks at how OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to prevent “large scale devastation” by their own AIs. Episode lin
Nov 19, 2024 • 46:38
Where are the alien AIs, and are we being softened up for superintelligence?
In episode 24 of The AI Fix, Mark makes an unforgivable error about the Terminator franchise, our hosts wonder if a "seductive" government chatbot will make it easier to talk about tax, a radio station abandons its three month AI experiment after a week, and OpenAI parks its tanks on Google’s lawn.Graham gets cosmic and wonders why we aren’t surrounded by advanced alien AIs, our hosts argue about whether the moon landings or the invention of the cheese sandwich were more consequential ev
Nov 12, 2024 • 45:20
Murder most weird, and why 9.11 is bigger than 9.9
In episode 23 of The AI Fix, an AI finds a new way to make life difficult for women in STEM, Graham reveals his brilliant idea for treating any medical emergency, a beloved chat show host returns from the grave, and our hosts learn that computer viruses were almost called computer weeds.Graham tells Mark a story involving a murder, a moth, and an AI journalist, and Mark pits his co-host against the world's most advanced computer program in a maths Olympiad.Episode links:AI to help doctors de
Nov 5, 2024 • 36:37
Probing AI tongues and ASCII smuggling attacks
In episode 22 of The AI Fix, our hosts encounter a bowl of buttermilk king crab ice cream prepared by a baby hippo, a TV station finds an even better way to generate programme ideas than using a tank full of manatees, and Elon Musk does the world's most expensive Blade Runner cosplay.Graham discovers a robot tongue and ponders the implications of AIs with an appetite, and Mark explains ASCII smuggling — a prompt injection attack that uses completely invisible characters.Episode links:Tweet b
Oct 29, 2024 • 37:57
Virtual Trump, barking mad AI, and a robot dog with a flamethrower
In episode 21 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classical music.Graham finds out what happens if you sellotape an Alexa to a Chihuahua, and Mark asks AI Trump and AI Harris how many Rs there are in "strawberry".Episode links:Thermonator - the robot dog with a flamethrower.AI Smart Glasses Read You
Oct 22, 2024 • 36:10
Elon's androids, emotional support chickens, and an AI Fix super fan
In episode 20 of The AI Fix, Mark asks an AI to make a very important decision, the Nobel academy finds a bandwagon, Graham gets a new nickname, a pair of robots prove that AI can't do humour, and our hosts find out why emotional support insects haven't taken off.Graham introduces Mark to Optimus, the robot that can't be trusted to fold a t-shirt, and Mark introduces Graham to an AI Fix super fan.Episode links:Nobel physics prize awarded to 'godfather of AI' who warned the te
Oct 15, 2024 • 36:16
AI spy specs, robot dogs with ladders, and is it AI or the climate?
In episode 19 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark discover some AI podcast hosts having an existential crisis, a robot dog climbs another step towards world domination, Mark makes a gift for anyone working in tech support, and William Shatner chews through Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.Things can take a terrible turn when a pair of bored students think they're Ethan Hunt, and Mark thinks that an underwater IKEA might be the silver lining to the climate crisis.Episode links:NotebookLM Podcast Host
Oct 8, 2024 • 34:49
ChatGPT's false memories, and would an inner critic stop AI hallucinations?
In episode 18 of The AI Fix our hosts discover that OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode is too emotional for Europeans, a listener writes a Viking saga about LinkedIn, ChatGPT is a terrible doctor, and the voice of Meta AI takes to Meta's platforms to complain about Meta AI reading things people post on Meta's platforms.Mark discovers what Darth Vader really said on Cloud City, Graham rummages through ChatGPT's false memories, and our hosts find out why AIs need an inner critic.Episode
Oct 1, 2024 • 34:04
Why AI is an AWFUL writer and LinkedIn's outrageous land grab
In episode 17 of The AI Fix, our hosts meet the worst newsreaders in the world, Graham learns about Big Trak and is shocked by a food delivery robot, Mark explains why he won't be dressing as a pirate, ChatGPT angelically removes a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR, and everyone thinks they've got Ebola.Graham explains how his career in fashion came to an end, LinkedIn morphs into a feather-duster-wielding polyphase avatron with an insatiable appetite for B2B sales, and Mark delves into
Sep 24, 2024 • 32:26
GPT-4o1, AI time travelers, and where's my driverless car?
In episode 16 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet GPT-4o1 and ask if it knows how many cousins Alice’s sister has, a top cop wants AI injected into his colleagues "like heroin", Mark finds an AI that might actually be able to help with that, and our hosts start a conspiracy theory about an AI that stops you believing in conspiracy theories.Graham peers into his crystal ball and discover's Reddit's bargain basement John Connor, and Mark is tired of waiting for the "tens of mil
Sep 17, 2024 • 39:08
AI robot butlers and gigawatt banana highways
In episode 15 of The AI Fix, Graham learns there's one W in Mississippi, ChatGPT finds Mark's G-spot, nobody watches Megalopolis, Alexa is unmasked as a "commie operative", and our hosts learn that AI will soon need dedicated nuclear reactors.Graham introduces Mark to a forlorn robot butler folding a shirt, and Mark explains why AI is like a highway of exploding bananas.Episode links:US, UK, EU sign international AI treaty.AI blamed for the fake quotes in movie trailer.Are AI-cre
Sep 10, 2024 • 35:50
There are two Rs in "strawberry", and an AI makes unsmellable smells
In episode 14 of The AI Fix, Graham makes an apology, Mark wonders if suicide drones have second thoughts, people pretend to be robots, and some researchers prove that all you need for an AI to generate a somewhat usable version of the computer game Doom out of thin air is to already have a fully-working copy of the computer game Doom.Graham learns how to escape from a police sniffer elephant, an AI-generates a smell with no odour, and Mark explains why the world's best LLMs think there are
Sep 3, 2024 • 42:54
ChatGPT runs for mayor, and should we stop killer robots?
In episode 13 of The AI Fix, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody's voice, and discover an AI that rick rolls its users.Graham tells Mark about AI's political ambitions and discovers what ChatGPT has in common with the reluctant ruler of the universe, while Mark introduces Grah
Aug 27, 2024 • 47:09
AI made from human brain cells, and is there life after death?
In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on "do no evil", and our hosts feel like David Attenborough as they witness herds of Waymo robotaxis honking their late-night mating calls at each other.Our hosts discover why it's OK to make AIs out of human brains, Mark takes Graham on an emotional roller coaster through t
Aug 21, 2024 • 49:58
AI gods, a robot dentist, and an angry human
In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there's no sound on a video of an AI dentist.Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named "L Ron", a traffic cone saves the world, and Mark has a heated argument with belligerent ChatGPT.Episode links:Judi Dench IS going to be the voice of AI.Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shake
Aug 13, 2024 • 44:05
An AI cookery dumpster fire, the ARC prize, and a creepy new AI friend
In episode ten of The AI Fix, Graham attempts to say "quinoa", Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying trailer for a creepy new AI friend.Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey mess, and learns an unusual trick for making a great mojito, while Mark pits his co-host against the cleverest AI brains in the world.Episode links:OpenAI starts rollout of Advanced Voice Mode.UK Gov
Aug 6, 2024 • 41:54
When AI detectors fail (spectacularly), and OpenAI’s five steps to Skynet
In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch...Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence.Episode links:Meta launches Llama 3.1.OpenAI Unveils Cheaper, Small AI Model GPT-4o Mini.SearchGPT: OpenAI’s Prototype Aims to Challen
Jul 30, 2024 • 45:48
Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest joke
In episode eight of "The AI Fix", our hosts tackle the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence and learn about two important medical breakthroughs, Mark coughs, Graham ruins "Killing me softly", and neither shows their junk to an AI.Graham explains humour to Mark and shares a donkey story he learned from a Bulgarian, ChatGPT reveals the funniest joke in the world, and Mark explains why AI's greatest talents can sometimes appear from thin air...Episode links:Camb
Jul 23, 2024 • 43:38
Can AI speak dolphin and do robots lick toads?
In episode seven of "The AI Fix", Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are like dolphins that smoke pufferfish.Episode links:Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!The AI Fix episode 2: Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with gunsThe
Jul 16, 2024 • 40:22
Can AIs speak dolphin and do robots lick toads?
In episode seven of The AI Fix, Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are like dolphins that smoke pufferfish.Episode links:Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!The AI Fix episode 2: Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with gunsThe AI Fix epi
Jul 16, 2024 • 40:23
AI lobotomies, and bots scam scam bots
In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse.Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells Graham how to lobotomise an AI that's obsessed with bridges.Episode links:AI chatbots are as good as NY Times agony aunt.Meta banned from mining data for AI in Brazil.Figma dis
Jul 9, 2024 • 48:54
An angry AI girlfriend, and artificial intelligence is stupid
In episode five of The AI Fix, we discover that if you can answer this question, you're smarter than 99% of AIs:"Alice has 4 brothers, and she also has 1 sister. How many sisters do Alice’s brothers have?"Find out why AI is stupid, what Toys "R" Us has done that's even more annoying than putting that "R" in its name, why Graham Cluley has an angry AI girlfriend, and much much more in episode five of "The AI Fix" podcast.Episode links:Exam submissions by AI
Jul 2, 2024 • 39:35
Fantastic voyage, and the technological singularity
In episode four of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark learn there's a 99.9% chance that AI will wipe out humans within 100 years, examine the even more chilling prospect of Barney the dinosaur reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to six-year-olds, and resurrect a tried-and-trusted software evaluation method to decide if Claude 3.5 Sonnet is better than ChatGPT-4o.Graham overshares on the subject of Meg Ryan while talking about a pill-sized medical robot, and Mark explains why humanity's future
Jun 25, 2024 • 31:47
The AI Olympics, WTF is AGI, and ChatGPT is down
In this week's episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI and discover an unusual way to stop Joe Biden deepfakes, ponder the implications of ChatGPT going down, and discuss the danger of Daleks armed with venti lattes.Graham tells Mark why he and superstar Tom Cruise are boycotting the Olympics, and Mark discovers an unexpected way to decide if AI is cleverer than humans.Episode links:OpenAI Says ChatGPT Suffering Major Outage.AI products lik
Jun 4, 2024 • 37:23
Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with guns
In the latest episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI, ponder the grisly demise of OpenAI's safety team, ask what the GPT-4o reveal will mean for Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, and question whether fitting guns to robots dogs is just wokeism gone mad.Graham explains to Mark why Mustard might help AI to understand teenagers better, both hosts pretend to be northerners, and Mark introduces Graham to ChatGPT's evil alter-ego DAN.Episode link
May 20, 2024 • 41:43
