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 rag tag team of AIs is given 30 days to raise money for charity, and Mark explores model collapse and Claude Opus 4.0's weird obsession with a fictional factory-farmed chicken company.

Episode links:

• And the award goes to… The AI Fix!
• Super Trouper meets supercomputer: AI helping Abba star to write musical.
• Dum dum diddle.
• AI systems could become conscious. What if they hate their lives?
• Liverpool Biennial review – AI seagulls, gladiatorial football and big trouble in Chinatown.
• The AI Revolution Is Underhyped.
• 'So scary': Customer stunned by new AI assistant at Hungry Jack's.
• Agent Village.
• Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves.
• System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4.

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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.

Graham asks your favourite AI how it feels about being kidnapped, and Mark explains how an AI tried to save itself by blackmailing the engineer responsible for turning it off.

Episode links:

• Duolingo CEO walks back AI memo.
• Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects.
• Humanoid robots fight in Chinese kick-boxing competition.
• Anthropic CEO warns AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.
• ‘Dystopian’ video shows robot dog scaring real dog in NYC: ‘That thing is possessed’.
• Sam Altman: Tens of millions of dollars well spent--you never know.
• ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it.
• Sergey Brin: All AI models tend to do better if you threaten them.
• System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4.

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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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 releases Codex, an AI agent destined to make your software engineering job not exist.

Graham reveals how an AI called "Thy" has ruined his childhood dream of becoming a late night radio DJ, and Mark looks at an experiment that showed groups of AI agents spontaneously create social norms—the building blocks of a society.

Episode links:

• Introducing Codex.
• Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist.
• Sam & Jony introduce io.
• Veo 3's big Broadway musical about garlic bread.
• First generation of humanoid workers in a factory, Shenzhen, China.
• Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents.
• Meet Thy – the radio host I don’t think exists.
• Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
• Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations.

The AI Fix

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

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