Beware of the superintelligence, and a spam-eating AI super gran

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).

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