"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."
"The announcement comes just days after Grok which is embedded into X, the social media network owned by Musk drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent. Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked Grok, while the U.K.'s independent online safety watchdog announced an investigation Monday. Grok has limited image generation and editing to paying users."
"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. Hegseth's aggressive push to embrace the still-developing technology stands in contrast to the Biden administration, which, while pushing federal agencies to come up with policies and uses for AI, was also wary of misuse."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Elon Musk's Grok will operate alongside Google's generative AI inside Pentagon networks and that leading AI models will be deployed on both unclassified and classified systems. Hegseth said military IT and intelligence database data will be made available for AI use. Grok recently sparked outcry for generating highly sexualized deepfake images without consent, prompting Malaysia and Indonesia to block the service and a U.K. safety watchdog investigation; Grok has limited image generation and editing to paying users. The Biden administration issued a late-2024 framework expanding AI use in national security while prohibiting certain applications that risk civil-rights violations or automate nuclear deployment.
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