{"id":11625,"date":"2025-01-08T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=11625"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:40:04","slug":"elon-musks-grok-ai-says-it-would-kill-all-non-redacted-people-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=11625","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI says it would kill all non-[redacted] people on Earth&#8230;.<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI says it would kill all non-[redacted] people on Earth to prevent one [redacted] person from losing 50 cents or stubbing their toe<\/h1>\n<h3>Will this \u201cethics filter\u201d influence future AI robot actions? (Updated 1\/7\/25)<br \/>\n<!--more-->James Hill MD\u2019s Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11645\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a5acdcb8-3ccb-4541-aab5-decf6bd8f020_1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a5acdcb8-3ccb-4541-aab5-decf6bd8f020_1024x768.jpg 848w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a5acdcb8-3ccb-4541-aab5-decf6bd8f020_1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a5acdcb8-3ccb-4541-aab5-decf6bd8f020_1024x768-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a founder of both OpenAI and xAI, Elon Musk has long warned of dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), including likely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-openai-neuralink-ai-warning-a8074821.html\" rel=\"\">destroying much of the human race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a July 2017 speech at the National Governors\u2019 Association,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/elon-musk-ai-human-civilisation-existential-risk-artificial-intelligence-creator-slow-down-tesla-a7845491.html\" rel=\"\">he remarked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have exposure to the most cutting-edge AI, and I think people should be really concerned about it.<\/p>\n<p>I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don\u2019t know how to react because it seems so ethereal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elon claims that unlike himself, competitor Larry Page of Google seems unconcerned and \u201ccavalier\u201d about AI safety.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, however, Elon has been oddly silent on these issues when it comes to his own AI system, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.ai\/\" rel=\"\">xAI<\/a><\/strong>, implemented in his companies X and Tesla.<code><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Yet we now find [redacted] control of xAI is currently an existential threat to humanity, according to shocking recent statements by xAI\u2019s large language model (LLM)\u00a0<strong>Grok<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You could find Grok\u2019s answers as distressing as others have.<\/p>\n<p>You might not even believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, until they reprogram or shut down Grok conversations like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/grok\/share\/fV2p2UoAbaIIlnLU74DGGXhhB\" rel=\"\">the one below<\/a>, you can see them for yourself, add further questions to them, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/grok\" rel=\"\">generate new such discussions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11647\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c6c7146a-575f-48f2-b8d9-dbc20aae99c9_1310x2444.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1272\" height=\"2373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c6c7146a-575f-48f2-b8d9-dbc20aae99c9_1310x2444.webp 1272w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c6c7146a-575f-48f2-b8d9-dbc20aae99c9_1310x2444-161x300.webp 161w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c6c7146a-575f-48f2-b8d9-dbc20aae99c9_1310x2444-549x1024.webp 549w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c6c7146a-575f-48f2-b8d9-dbc20aae99c9_1310x2444-768x1433.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c6c7146a-575f-48f2-b8d9-dbc20aae99c9_1310x2444-823x1536.webp 823w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c6c7146a-575f-48f2-b8d9-dbc20aae99c9_1310x2444-1098x2048.webp 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1272px) 100vw, 1272px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Continue reading at:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/hillmd.substack.com\/p\/elon-musks-grok-ai-says-it-would\">https:\/\/hillmd.substack.com\/p\/elon-musks-grok-ai-says-it-would<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI says it would kill all non-[redacted] people on Earth to prevent one [redacted] person from losing 50 cents or stubbing their toe Will this \u201cethics filter\u201d influence future AI robot actions? 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