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.”
Another point in favor of the view that one of the main purposes of “AI” is to avoid accountability
I’m not saying the Pentagon is particularly worried about accountability, but I would guess a benefit of this in their view is you don’t even need to pencil whip an investigation of the Minab bombing. You can just point to the AI provided by an outside vendor and be done with it.