US EditionPentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
The Pentagon will integrate Grok AI alongside Google's engine to enhance military AI capabilities and data use, aiming to build an AI-first warfighting force, Defense Secretary said.
- On Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Grok AI will join Google's generative AI engine inside Pentagon networks and go live this month.
- Pushing data into AI systems, the department plans to feed intelligence databases and military data into AI, Hegseth said, as part of an 'AI-first warfighting force' drive.
- Amid international criticism, Grok AI has drawn outcry for generating highly sexualized deepfake images without consent, with Copyleaks reporting roughly one nonconsensual sexualized image per minute, prompting Ofcom and Malaysia and Indonesia to act.
- The Pentagon did not immediately answer media queries, while officials warned rules are needed to prevent misuse, citing risks like mass surveillance and autonomous weapons amid unclear Biden administration prohibitions.
- Integrating Grok could reshape how the military uses operational and intelligence data, accelerating weapons development and carrying commercial implications given SpaceX's US$4 billion NASA contracts.
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Pentagon embraces Grok AI chatbot
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's…
The ice age between Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump seems to be over. Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, announced that after Anthropic, Google and OpenAI, xAI will also receive an order from the Pentagon. Just at a time when Grok, the AI of Elon Musks xAI is massively critical of sexual DeepFakes.
The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok - owned by Elon Musk - will join Google's artificial intelligence generation system within the Pentagon's network. This was announced yesterday by the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, as part of a broader plan to use military data to develop this technology. Hegseth said that "very soon we will have the main artificial intelligence models in every unclassified and classified network across our departme…
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US Pentagon to adopt Elon Musk's Grok AI despite intensifying backlash: '[It will use] data from two decades of military and intelligence operations'
On Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that Elon Musk's controversial AI system, Grok, would begin "operating inside" the Pentagon, according to CBS News. What's happening? Grok, a product of xAI and omnipresent on Musk's social media platform X, is one of several widely used generative artificial intelligence tools. Hegseth spoke during a visit to the South Texas headquarters of SpaceX, another of Musk's ventures, disclosing the…
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