Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, official says
www.independent.co.uk
Top defense official says data centers powering trillionaire’s chatbot are critical to national security

Donald Trump’s administration turned to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to launch thousands of missiles in Iran, according to a top defense official.

In a sworn statement defending the trillionaire from a lawsuit alleging xAI data centers are illegally polluting Black communities, the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence chief said the chatbot’s continued operation is “a matter of paramount national security” — and was used to fire more than “2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours.”

Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, is among four AI models “currently capable of supporting national security applications,” according to Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 months ago

    Nope, wrong:

    “USA Missle Command Turns Their Brains Off When Selecting Targets, Leaves National Security Decisions to Elon’s Porn Chatbot”

    The AI didn’t “do” anything; a human used it to be functionally negligent in their duties. That’s how this should be reported on.

  • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
    111·
    2 months ago

    AI cannot make management decisions. The idea that anyone should hand over responsibility for missile deployment to a machine completely undermines the integrity of any military decision. Also, Grok is a CP creation tool, an evil automaton that should be turned off.

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    The targets for Operation Epic Fury were identified with the aid of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maven Smart System, which uses AI to lay out data on a dashboard to support officials in their decision-making.

    Those AI products do not explicitly create targets but work within Maven to identify potential points of interest for military intelligence.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 months ago

    We will use AI to make bad decisions more quickly, but not only that, we will use the worst AI to make the worst decisions possible.
    We would have used a Chinese AI because it’s cheaper, but we weren’t allowed to. So Grok it is, which is fine, because Musk is the only ally to the current administration that is as reliable as Trump.