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 AI health coach is still out of shape.
• Church installs AI-powered Jesus.
• An AI that learned to do surgery by watching videos is ready to operate on humans.
• Meet Alice, the terrifying AI robot teaching kids in India.
• Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative AI.
• Anti-deepfake declaration may have been written by AI.
• Mens rea.
• Europe's Insane History of Putting Animals on Trial and Executing Them.
• Therac-25.
• Boeing 737 MAX groundings.
• Did HAL commit murder?
• Absurd Trolley Problems.
• Predicting conflict – a year in advance.
• Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS).
• GDELT project.

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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 links:

• Robot dog patrols Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after election victory.
• AI developers discover 'Donald Trump neuron', expert says.
• AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source.
• Someone moved Skynet satellite, and no-one knows who or why.
• The first entirely AI-generated video game.
• Twitter’s AI, Grok, identifies the person most responsible for spreading misinformation on the platform
• OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations.
• Petition urges Donald Trump to make Elon Musk the White House’s special advisor on AI.
• How Elon Musk Could Reshape AI Policy in the Trump White House.
• Other phones before and after the iPhone release.
• Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe.
• AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created by O2 to waste phone scammers' time.
• Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy.
• OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework (Beta).

The AI Fix

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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 events in human history, and Mark tells Graham that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner.

Episode links:

• AI chatbot launches on Gov.UK – with mixed results.
• Introducing ChatGPT search.
• Polish radio station abandons use of AI 'presenters' following outcry.
• Anthropic introduces “Computer use”, a way for its AI models to control computers.
• Organiser “highly embarrassed” after fake AI Halloween parade.
• AI Has Likely Spread Through Cosmos, Says Former NASA Chief Historian.
• If alien life is artificially intelligent, it may be stranger than we can imagine.
• Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It.
• The Intelligence Age by Sam Altman.
• Sam Altman talking about the next five years.
• Mustafa Suleyman talking about AGI.
• Eric Schmidt talking about AGI.

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 Twitter at @TheAIFix or BlueSky at @theaifix.show.

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