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highplainsdem

(60,144 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:28 PM 18 hrs ago

Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

Source: Independent

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology.

“Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” Hegseth said in a speech at Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX, in South Texas.

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Hegseth said Grok will go live inside the Defense Department later this month and announced that he would “make all appropriate data” from the military’s IT systems available for “AI exploitation.” He also said data from intelligence databases would be fed into AI systems.

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Hegseth said his vision for military AI systems means that they operate “without ideological constraints that limit lawful military applications,” before adding that the Pentagon's “AI will not be woke.”

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/pete-hegseth-elon-musk-spacex-pentagon-google-b2899247.html?p

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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry (Original Post) highplainsdem 18 hrs ago OP
Somebody please dweller 17 hrs ago #1
Weird spelling IbogaProject 17 hrs ago #2
If only AI could do that Easterncedar 17 hrs ago #3
Of course an org run by The Dotard and his drunky mcdrunkface TV personality RockRaven 17 hrs ago #4
Sounds like a GREAT plan!!! maspaha 10 hrs ago #5
Musk is a con man. He's very good at siphoning our tax dollars into his bank accounts. hunter 7 hrs ago #6
So, pedos at the Pentagon? Miguelito Loveless 2 hrs ago #7

RockRaven

(18,754 posts)
4. Of course an org run by The Dotard and his drunky mcdrunkface TV personality
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 11:25 PM
17 hrs ago

would adopt the pedo porn machine. That is who they are.

hunter

(40,389 posts)
6. Musk is a con man. He's very good at siphoning our tax dollars into his bank accounts.
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 09:07 AM
7 hrs ago

Nothing he has done has made the world a better place. Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX, the site formerly known as twitter, and grock can all go to hell.

Most of these AI schemes are not economically viable so the government is going to bail them out with contracts and subsidies.

The AI data centers will be transformed into the most intrusive government surveillance systems humans have known.

Big Brother will be watching us all.

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