The AI Fix

In episode 92 of The AI Fix, Mark explains why the AI that ushers in the apocalypse might be more drunk toddler than evil genius, and guest host Corey Noles offers moral support as his pet AI starts to replicate itself.
Also this week: Jack Dorsey slashes jobs at Block and blames AI; Reddit sets a trap for Perplexity AI; OpenAI raises enough money to rival a small nation; and a new benchmark asks a simple question: is AI full of crap?
Episode links:
Block CEO Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000 Block staff.
Reddit sues AI company over 'industrial-scale' scraping.
OpenAI raises $110B in enormous private funding round.
BullshitBench: Models Answering Nonsense Questions.
The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity?

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In episode 91 of The AI Fix, guest host Lianne Potter unearths a forgotten pioneer of digital anthropology, while Mark discovers a simple question about a car wash that's got almost every AI stumped.
Also in this episode, why have one AI when you can have 19; Lianne proves that she isn't Darth Vader; a satirical gym advert reveals humanity's grim future; and a war game simulation shows that AI would rather nuke everyone than negotiate.
Episode links:
Introducing Perplexity Computer.
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Agreement to Bring Disney Characters to Sora.
AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations.
Watch the viral 'ad' that imagines aged Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos promoting a creepy energy source for AI.
Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence.
Never Neutral: Why We Need More Anthropologists in the AI Alignment Space.
Never Neutral: AI Development, Past, Present and Future in Anthropological Research.
Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models.

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In episode 90 of The AI Fix, VC investor Mercedes Bent shares an insider's view of how venture capital is reshaping the AI race, why she believes AI will create jobs instead of destroying them, and five ways the AI bubble could burst.
Also this week: Anthropic accuses three Chinese labs of scraping its models using thousands of fake accounts, an autonomous agent trashes a researcher's inbox (then apologises), and DeepMind's CEO proposes an “Einstein test” for AGI.
Episode links:
Hassabis proposes the Einstein test for AGI.
An AI agent went rogue on a safety researcher's inbox.
Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of distillation attacks on Claude.

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In episode 89 of The AI Fix, Mark discovers that overconfident reasoning models are easily bullied, while guest host Greg explains what a 'vibe' password is and why you should never ever use one.
Also in this episode, Microsoft saves the world; Anthropic's head of AI safety quits to write poetry; Greg learns why Japanese toilets feel so solid; and Mark offers tourism advice to a small town in Tasmania.
Episode links:
Anthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril' and so he's off to become invisible and study poetry.
OpenAI disbands mission alignment team which focused on safe and trustworthy AI development.
Japanese toilet maker 'the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary'.
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman confirms AI self-sufficiency push away from OpenAI.
Tasmania hot springs that don't exist.
Vibe Password Generation.
Consistency of Large Reasoning Models Under Multi-Turn Attacks.

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In episode 88 of The AI Fix, Corey Noles from The Neuron drops in to unpack OpenClaw, the AI agent that’s not so much a chatbot as a brain in a jar with hands and a credit card.
Elsewhere, our hosts explore a website where AIs can hire humans, Mark discovers that truth and safety might be mutually exclusive, AGI quietly turns up while nobody’s paying attention, and an AI called Henry gives itself a phone number and calls its human for a chat.
Episode links:
Anthropic's Claude legal plugin rattles legal tech investors.
Alex Finn's AI agent Henry calls him for a chat.
Moltbot goes rogue.
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? Nature examines the evidence.
RentAHuman.ai — where AI agents hire humans.
OpenClaw.
The Unintended Trade-off of AI Alignment: Balancing Hallucination Mitigation and Safety in LLMs.

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