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, 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 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. The chatbot is also one of three products “equipped to support mission-critical operations” in top secret settings.
The filing appears to be the first explicit admission from an administration official that the government is using Musk’s AI in Iran War targeting via the Grok Gov Model within Maven Smart Systems workflows.