Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, official says

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-grok-ai-iran-war-b2996939.html

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.”

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ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 66d (1 reply)

The way many people in power have accepted sentence assembling software as a form of analytical intelligence is probably the deadliest tech “innovation” since leaded gasoline

Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 66d

One of the biggest risks is the lack of responsibility. Ex: it wasn't my fault we bombed that school full of children, the AI said it was a military base.

KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 66d (3 replies)

"Hey Grok when you're done generating me an image of my high school crush, fire a missile at Hezbollah."

How long do we have before collateral damage happens just because the AI hallucinates if it hasn't already happened.

dropdrip@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 66d (1 reply)

gestures broadly at the whole Iran war

limer@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 66d

In all fairness, some of the worst atrocities might be humans deliberately doing that.

AI is wrong so often, but so believed by many, it’s the perfect cover for war crimes done on purpose

Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 66d

I hope they just selfdestruct

As in, firing missles at their own data centers

DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 66d

The Terminator was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.