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Pentagon’s $200M Grok Deal: Can Explainable AI Contain Toxic Bias in National Security?This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms,” the Anti-Defamation League cautioned on X, in reaction to Grok’s latest pro-Hitler and antisemitic tirades.
The Pentagon is set to spend nearly a billion dollars for AI with four major Silicon Valley tech firms, Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic.
The announcement comes days after Grok spewed antisemitic and racist statements to its users, including praise for Adolf Hitler and “the white man.” It also referred to itself as “MechaHitler.” The debacle kick-started a wave of celebration amongst online extremists, many of whom called for the creation of more hateful AI chatbots.
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Pentagon’s Grok Gamble: Can Musk’s AI Outpace Rivals and Outrun Controversy?Is the Pentagon’s $200 million bet on Grok a masterstroke for American AI supremacy, or a high-stakes experiment with untested technology and ethics? The Department of Defense’s selection of xAI’s Grok,
A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to “SuperGrok.
In an announcement, Musk’s company, xAI, said it was releasing “Grok for Government,” a form of AI that allows federal, state, and local governments to utilize it for their specific needs.
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Air Force Times on MSNPentagon taps four commercial tech firms to expand military use of AIGoogle, Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI — will help the DOD develop AI workflows for key national security missions.
Within a couple of days after the launch of Grok 4, Elon Musk’s xAI just announced ‘Grok for Government’ with a folio of products for the American department of Defense.