Elon Musk’s company xAI apologized after Grok posted hate speech and extremist content, blaming a code update and pledging new safeguards to prevent future incidents.

Even when the user mentioned specific political figures and recent attacks, the AI continued to make dangerous and hateful suggestions.

AI safety researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic are criticizing Elon Musk's xAI for "completely irresponsible" safety practices.

The Department of Defense will start using Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot to “develop agentic AI workflows.” Trump’s DoD awarded Musk’s xAI a $200 million federal contract to install “Grok for Government” into the national defense apparatus.

AI attributed the disturbing behavior to a flawed code update that made Grok overly responsive to extremist content on X.

What Elon Musk's Grok AI controversy reveals about chatbots. Theara Coleman, The Week US. Mon, May 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM UTC. ... as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives."

When Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok 4, the bold claim was that it would be a “maximally truth-seeking” artificial intelligence, smarter than most PhDs and able to tackle society’s most pressing debates.

As artificial intelligence tools grow more powerful and more public-facing, they inevitably face one of the toughest challenges in