Elon Musk's AI tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, says U.S. government
Elon Musk's AI Grok directed thousands of missile strikes in Iran, US government revealed in court filing defending xAI's turbines.
- In court filings on Monday, the Pentagon revealed its reliance on Elon Musk's Grok Gov Model for Project Maven, the military's AI-assisted targeting program currently deployed in Iran operations.
- The Pentagon shifted to Grok after terminating contracts with Anthropic, which refused to allow its Claude model for fully automated strikes or domestic surveillance operations.
- Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley stated Grok enabled American forces to deploy more than 2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury, though faulty intelligence allegedly led to at least 175 deaths in Minab.
- Arguing that the case threatens national security, the Department of Justice is asking a Mississippi judge to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit claiming Musk's xAI operates at least 57 turbines without Clean Air Act permits.
- Several Democrats in Congress, including Sen Kirsten Gillibrand, are proposing legislation to restrict military AI use and ensure human commanders maintain control over life-and-death decisions, citing concerns about the Pentagon's deployment of powerful AI without commonsense guardrails.
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The US Military Has Been Using Elon Musk's Grok AI to Bomb Iran
In the early days of the US and Israeli war on Iran, situation monitors were abuzz at the revelation that the Pentagon had used top large language models to identify targets for annihilation via air strikes. Those targets included civilian buildings like Tehran’s Azadi Sport Complex, a historic stadium which once hosted World Cup matches, and the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, in a bombing that killed at least 156 people, including over 100 ch…
US Military Used Musk’s Grok AI to Fire 2,000 Missiles at Iran
The US military used Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran in just 96 hours, a top defence official has said. The Pentagon’s AI chief revealed the US Department of War’s reliance on Grok for the first time in a court statement defending Musk from allegations that his data centre power plants are illegally polluting residential neighbourhoods in Mississippi. In a written submission to a district judge, Cameron Stanley said the…
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Grok, Elon Musk's AI model, was used in the war against Iran. The Americans launched no fewer than two thousand missiles using Grok. The US Department of Justice writes this in a legal document. Four questions about AI in warfare.
A major claim has emerged regarding the US-Israeli campaign against Iran. A senior US Department of Defense official has stated in a court filing that the Grok AI model from Elon Musk's company xAI was used in military operations.
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