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 hosts with an amazing medical breakthrough.

Plus, Graham explains why the impending AI apocalypse is making him feel unusually upbeat, and Mark looks at how a highly unusual collaboration could make us all safer.

Episode links:

• Sushi hackathon.
• Google Gemini has a self-loathing meltdown
• Robot patrol dog takes to the streets of Taipei, but not everybody’s happy.
• Team of AI agents designs new COVID-19 nanobodies.
• ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what’s going on inside my pregnant belly.
• 'Pregnancy robot from China' is fake, but is the technology behind it possible?
• The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier.
• AI Safety Index 2025.
• Findings from a pilot Anthropic–OpenAI alignment evaluation exercise: OpenAI Safety Tests.
• Findings from a Pilot Anthropic—OpenAI Alignment Evaluation Exercise.
• Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'.

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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 explains why Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Excel’s new Copilot feature in any spreadsheet calculations that are meant to be useful, accurate, reproducible, or relied on for anything important, and Mark discovers what happened when researchers gave 500 AIs their own social network.

Episode links:

• Bursting the Cloud.
• Don’t call it ‘the cloud’. Call it ‘someone else’s computer’.
• Ethan Mollick’s version of Attention Is All You Need.
• World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony.
• Robotics Relay Race Turns into an Unexpected Comedy.
• AI has created a new breed of cat video.
• He lost everything… but built a life more than he ever dreamed.
• Evri deploys first robot delivery dogs.
• How a Misplaced Decimal Point Nearly Took Down Spain’s Newest Submarines.
• Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel.
• COPILOT Function.
• Can We Fix Social Media?

The AI Fix

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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 hit, "Dusty Plasma".

Plus, Graham digs into the spat between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and Mark learns that humanity could be saved by vaccinating AI against evil.

Episode links:

• Delete your old emails, says UK government.
• National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall.
• The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI.
• Another robot has started folding laundry.
• Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control.
• Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.
• Robocrab humiliated in mudflat love triangle.
• Tweet by Elon Musk, claiming OpenAI is being given preferential treatment in the Apple App Store.
• Elon Musk asks ChatGPT a question.
• Sam Altman enters the fray.
• Grok decides if Sam Altman or Elon Musk is right.
• Persona vectors.



The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.

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