Grok helped strike 2,000 targets at Iran. Now its pollution is ‘national security’.
The Pentagon says Grok helped strike 2,000 targets in 96 hours, and that the polluting power plant behind it is a matter of paramount national security. The two claims belong in the same sentence, and that is the problem.
The admission did not come in a press release or a Pentagon briefing, it came in a statement filed in a federal courthouse in Mississippi, in a case about air pollution. There, defending Elon Musk’s xAI against a Clean Air Act lawsuit, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer set down a sentence that ought to stop anyone reading it cold.
The chatbot known as Grok, he wrote, had helped fire more than 2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets in Iran within 96 hours, and its continued operation was a matter of paramount national security.
Read that again, because the venue is the whole story. A government official disclosed...
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