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.”
Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, is among four AI models “currently capable of supporting national security applications,” according to Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer.
Yup started with hardware like Gorgon Stare, then machine learning for targeting data, then Anduril to collect the metadata from satelites and other sources. They stitch it together, send the package to an analyst for review and they decide if/when to pull the trigger. Sounds like that last part is just a butterbar responding to a Grok prompt now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Joint-Force-Quarterly/Joint-Force-Quarterly-75/Article/577571/understanding-the-enemy-the-enduring-value-of-technical-and-forensic-exploitati/
https://freepress.org/article/anduril-s-lattice-now-army-s-drone-killing-brain-and-it-s-built-act-faster-human-judgment
https://arxiv.org/html/2602.13324
Surely the automated drone Torment Nexus will be a net benefit to humanity. We can hellfire so many Pakistani weddings now.