AI Fails Spectacularly: A Catastrophic Data Loss Incident

In episode 61 of The AI Fix, a robot called DeREK goes bananas, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic warn we may lose the ability to see what AI is thinking, a dextrous robot changes its own batteries, the USA unveils its AI action plan, and a human beats AI to win the World Coding Championship.

Also in this week's episode, Graham reveals why you should never ask a vibe coding app to "clean up" your project, and Mark explains why it was handbags at dawn at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Episode links:

• OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’.
• Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety.
• Experimental fighting robot thrashing uncontrollably.
• Elon says that in future we’ll be able to “mentally remote” into an Optimus robot.
• Walker S2 – The world’s first humanoid robot capable of operating autonomously 24/7.
• Human programmer beats OpenAI’s custom AI in 10‑hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship—possibly the last human winner.
• AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database.
• Replit CEO: What really happened when AI agent wiped Jason Lemkin’s database.
• Jason Lemkin “Vibe coding day 8”.
• Alexander Wei announces IMO gold medal.
• Sam Altman weighs in.
• Thang Long announces IMO gold medal.
• Demis Hassabis weighs in.

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