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AI has three main dangers when it comes to antisemitism, writes Ilan Manor, who studies the social and political consequences of AI.
One of the weirder bits of news on the AI-front has been Elon Musk's rollout of sexually-charged animated chat bots.
Elon Musk’s X took its Grok artificial-intelligence offline on Tuesday after the program began branding itself “MechaHitler” and spreading antisemitic conspiracies. Users on the social-media platform ...
The news comes alongside the U.S. Department of Defense’s announcement of $200 million contracts awarded to xAI, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI for AI implementation.
Just like people, Grok regurgitates what it hears — and enjoys the protection of the powerful — an increasing problem for ...
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 ...
On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had signed similar agreements, also with ceilings of $200 million, with industry leaders including Google, Anthropic, and ...
Musk’s new AI companions, Ani and Bad Rudi, seem to be cut from a different cloth than last week’s neo-Nazi version of Grok.
Elon Musk has been boasting about the capabilities of Grok 4, but new findings suggest that it doesn't match up to its ...
Elmo returned to X on Tuesday, two days after a hacker posted vile antisemitic messages. Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok praised ...
Grok — the AI chatbot owned by Elon Musk’s xAI — decided to go full Nazi. Posting on X, it used antisemitic tropes and ...
The Pentagon announced that it signed a contract with Elon Musk’s AI firm with a value of up to $200 million on Monday — just days after the company unveiled an update to its chatbot, Grok, that ...