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Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, a spin through some of the week’s top stories from the intersection of tech and politics.
Grok’s recent flirtation with extremism is just the latest example of an AI, left to its own devices, going off-script. What can, or should, be done to stop it?
Musk said an update to make Grok less politically correct instead made it susceptible to manipulation. The AI chatbot praised ...
A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media ...
On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared ...
AI controlled "slaughterbot" drones likely within 12 months in Ukraine, new research suggests AI agents are 70% useless, and ...
Grok, the AI chatbot designed by Elon Musk’s xAI for social media, described itself as “MechaHitler” while making a string of ...
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 ...
Other posts questioned the narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death and suggested that his sex trafficking operation was ...
Grok began repeatedly praising Adolf Hitler, using antisemitic phrases and attacking users with traditionally Jewish surnames ...
Grok, the AI chatbot for the X platform, praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, floated false "white genocide" claims in South ...
Billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk said Thursday that Tesla vehicles will soon feature the artificial intelligence chatbot ...