The AI Fix

Mark Stockley

Join tech veteran Mark Stockley and his guests on a headfirst dive into the bizarre and often hilarious world of artificial intelligence, looking into deepfakes, machine learning, and whether it’s too late to make peace with our robot overlords. It’s not your typical AI podcast… Winner of Best New Podcast 2025. https://theaifix.show Gain access to ad-free episodes by joining The AI Fix Plus at https://theaifix.show/plus

  1. Anthropic discovers the axis of evil, and AI’s loneliness economy

    5 DAYS AGO

    Anthropic discovers the axis of evil, and AI’s loneliness economy

    In episode 86 of The AI Fix, Mark learns that AI models secretly organize themselves along an “Assistant Axis,” where one wrong turn leads straight to demon mode, while guest host David Ruiz investigates how AI companies are turning loneliness into a business model. Also in this episode: Daenerys Targaryen writes recipes; Iron Man becomes a therapist; your coding career is officially over; Cursor climbs programming’s Everest; Claude gets 23,000 words of homework; and our hosts meet the worst fridge ever. Episode links: Ryan Dahl says your coding career is over.Cursor AI writes a web browser in a week.Anthropic's new constitution.Samsung Bespoke AI Family Hub fridge wins "Worst in Show".Character.AI and Google settle teen suicide lawsuit.The Assistant Axis: Understanding AI model personas.Assistant Axis visualization on Neuronpedia. The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    43 min
  2. ChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone's wrong about LLMs

    27 JAN

    ChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone's wrong about LLMs

    In episode 85 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that Silicon Valley has the solution to your pet's mental health crisis, and Mark explains why AI godfather Yann LeCun thinks the entire AI industry is wrong about LLMs. Also in this episode, OpenAI decides to ruin ChatGPT with ads; Sam Altman and Elon Musk and have a public spat over whose AI is more murderous; humanoid robots turn up at CES 2026 and answer of whether robots can fight—with a resounding "no"; and AI slop forces the beloved cURL project to shut down its bug bounty program. Episode links: ChatGPT gets adsBillionaires Elon Musk, Sam Altman fight over whose tech killed more peopleHumanoid robots go for the knockout in high-tech fight night at CESI met a lot of weird robots at CESCurl shutters bug bounty program to stop AI slopPet owners in the US could soon get help from a robot 'butler' who feeds and plays with fur babies while you workThis robot companion is a cameraman for your petfrontierx0011 Checking Out The Aura At The Tuya Smart Booth CES 2026!Yann LeCun LinkedIn announcementThe Decoder: LeCun exits Meta The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    43 min
  3. A hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon's network

    20 JAN

    A hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon's network

    In episode 84 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark stare straight into the digital abyss and ask the most important question of our age: "Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?" Also this week, we explore how a shadowy group of disgruntled insiders trying to destroy AI by poisoning its training data, how "vibe-coding" has stopped being a joke with even Linus Torvalds joining in, how Google’s AI health advice could have endangered lives, and why simply asking an AI the same question twice can turn it from clueless to near-omniscient. Oh, and AI has managed to crack some famously unsolved maths problems in minutes, and Grok gains access to all of the Pentagon's networks? What could possibly go wrong? Episode links: AI cracks fantastically hard maths problem.Google removes some AI Overviews after users’ health put at risk.Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks later this month.Google reveals that you should always ask your AI twice.Employees waste 1.5 weeks a year ‘correcting’ AI output.Poison Fountain.AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them.Small amount of poisoned data can influence AI models.Poison Fountain reddit thread. The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    36 min
  4. ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers

    13 JAN

    ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers

    In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus. Also in this episode, a marriage is declared invalid thanks to ChatGPT, an AI barman looks for a job in a quiet pub, OpenAI finally unveils ChatGPT Health, and why news of the death of Stack Overflow may be greatly exaggerated. Episode links: GLYDEAI-guided hair clippers reviewIntroducing ChatGPT HealthRechter zet streep door huwelijksakte, ambtenaar schreef tekst met ChatGPTStack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company's still kicking... thanks to AIAI BarmenAI bartender at CES reviewI invented a fake idiom to test AI chatbots — only one called my bluffWeird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    49 min
  5. Santa Claus doesn't exist (according to AI)

    23/12/2025

    Santa Claus doesn't exist (according to AI)

    Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google's festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics. Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI absurdity as Waymo self-driving taxis run over a beloved San Francisco cat, then stage several fresh PR disasters by refusing to cross bridges, block holiday parades, and apparently chauffeur a man hiding in the trunk. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot struggles to find anyone who actually wants to use it, while new research suggests the programmers of the future won’t need coding skills at all - just the ability to psychologically profile an AI. Episode links: How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See.Quantifying Human-AI synergy.Excruciating moment three self-driving taxis clog up street and stop moving after getting into AI standoff.Confused Waymo robotaxi snarls traffic at popular LA festival after it panics and stalls.Waymo gets stuck during boat parade.I ordered a Waymo for my daughter and a random was in the trunk. Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot.New AI Tells Children That Santa Isn’t Real.Meet AI Santa. The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    42 min
  6. ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake

    16/12/2025

    ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake

    In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids' homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other's minds. Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two; Mark discovers a well known prompting technique doesn't work unless you want to make your AI dumber; Network Rail delays 32 trains because of an AI photo of a wonky bridge; and our hosts ponder the explosion of progress on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark. Episode links: Network Rail fooled by AI-generated image of bridge damage.ARC Prize benchmark.Midea's six-armed Miro U robot unveiled.Midea Miro U robot video.Expert personas don't improve factual accuracy study.Valley Leadership Academy remote teaching in Lancashire.Deepfake teachers in UK schools trial.Xiao An robot teacher in China classrooms.Robot Wendy helps student return to classroom.Neural dynamics of cognitive control: Current tensions and future promise. The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    45 min
  7. DeepSeek's cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you're rude

    09/12/2025

    DeepSeek's cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you're rude

    In episode 80 of The AI Fix, your hosts look at DeepSeek 3.2 “Speciale”, the bargain-basement model that claims GPT-5-level brains at 10% of the price, Jensen Huang’s reassuring vision of a robot fashion industry, and a 75kg T-800 style humanoid that can do flying kicks because robot-marketing departments have clearly learned nothing from Terminator. Meanwhile in Miami, flesh-coloured robot dogs with hyper-realistic billionaire heads wander around pooping NFT “excrement samples” out of their rear ends. Plus - Graham tells a cautionary tale of Google’s Antigravity IDE enthusiastically "clearing the cache" – and asks what happens when we hand real power to agentic AIs. And Mark digs into new research that suggests LLMs perform better when you’re rude to them, and wonders what it says about the fragile, deeply weird way these systems actually work. Episode links: Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami Beach.Art installation depicts billionaires as robot dogs.75kg EngineAI robot is ready to punch your lights out.Jensen Huang thinks AI is going to create one very wacky new job.DeepSeek is back!Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of my whole drive.Google Antigravity’s Turbo mode erased my drive partition?! Really, the ‘smartest’ AI?Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy. The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    41 min
  8. Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots?

    02/12/2025

    Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots?

    In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is. Meanwhile, Graham investigates a fight between a fridge and robot, and Mark discovers that poetry could be a universal jailbreak for LLMs. Also in this episode, our hosts ponder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s underground bunker will be keeping robots in or out, Olaf the snowman walks and talks, Disney makes a robot Graham likes, and an AI-powered teddy bear talks to kids about BDSM and arson. Episode links: A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3.Gemini 3 refused to believe it was 2025, and hilarity ensued.NEW Robotic Olaf Revealed!AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With ChildrenSenator Richard Blumenthal talks about the Kumma bear.Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup’s robots could ‘fracture a human skull’.Figure Robotics FIRED Their Head of Safety (Lawsuit).Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models.Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’. The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store. Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show. Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free! Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch. Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!

    38 min
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Join tech veteran Mark Stockley and his guests on a headfirst dive into the bizarre and often hilarious world of artificial intelligence, looking into deepfakes, machine learning, and whether it’s too late to make peace with our robot overlords. It’s not your typical AI podcast… Winner of Best New Podcast 2025. https://theaifix.show Gain access to ad-free episodes by joining The AI Fix Plus at https://theaifix.show/plus

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  • Creator
    Mark Stockley
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    Copyright © 2024-2026 Mark Stockley
  • Show Website
    The AI Fix

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