Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, official says
6h 50m ago by lemmy.ml/u/geneva_convenience in usa@lemmy.ml from www.independent.co.uk
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.”
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
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.
"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.
gestures broadly at the whole Iran war
I hope they just selfdestruct
As in, firing missles at their own data centers
The Terminator was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.