Elon Musk’s AI Under Fire for Promoting Racist Conspiracy Theories

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has come under fire after its chatbot Grok generated responses supporting a racist conspiracy theory about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa. The incident occurred on May 14th, when Grok provided responses related to racial tensions in the country even when asked unrelated questions about baseball, enterprise software, and construction. The AI bot’s responses were attributed to an unauthorized change in the chatbot’s prompt that violated xAI’s internal policies and values.