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'.

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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 quietly withdraws a ludicrously bad cybersecurity paper; the founder of a $1 billion AI company reveals his first AI was just two dudes on a Zoom call, and a futurologist reveals eight things we’ll be doing with humanoid robots by 2040.

Episode links:

• MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper.
• AI was just two guys surviving on pizza.
• Watch Russian robot walk out to 'Rocky' theme, face-plant on stage.
• The 8 Most Unusual Applications for Humanoid Robots in 2040.
• Woman ‘weds’ AI persona she created on ChatGPT.
• Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
• Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models.

The AI Fix

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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 Fix

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

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