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Trump Spent Hours Quizzing Musk's Grok Before Maduro Capture, AI Reportedly Told Him Venezuelans Would Celebrate

  • Weeks before U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump spent hours questioning Elon Musk's Grok chatbot about how Venezuelans would react if Maduro were taken into custody.
  • Grok characterized Maduro as a "deeply unpopular dictator" and predicted Venezuelans would celebrate his downfall, prompting Trump to conclude the chatbot was "ingenious."
  • U.S. forces successfully captured Maduro during a military operation on January 3, with celebrations in Venezuela subsequently aligning with the chatbot's earlier predictions.
  • The Pentagon has previously integrated AI tools like Gov Grok into defense operations, including during the Iran war for strike targeting and deployment assistance.
  • Musk and Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey will co-lead Project Meridian, a 120-day Pentagon study examining how advanced technologies will shape future battlefield environments.
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Artificial intelligence caused in part the operation that ended the capture of Nicolás Maduro. It was not a single system nor had a single function. Grok, the service mounted by Elon Musk, was personally consulted by Donald Trump weeks before the attack on the political consequences of arresting the Venezuelan leader. And Claude, the model of Anthropic, was later used by the Pentagon during the military operation of January 3, integrated into th…

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In a long survey of Trump's second presidency, Time magazine reveals an amazing episode: a few weeks before Nicolás Maduro's capture, US president would have questioned Grok, AI...

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DONALD Trump asked AI chatbot Grok how Venezuela would react to the arrest of President Maduro. After the AI predicted celebrations, Trump ordered the arrest operation, calling the AI 'genius'.

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