Ask someone their worst fears about AI, and you’ll find a few recurring topics – from near-term fears like AI tools replacing human workers and the loss of critical thinking to apocalyptic scenarios like AI-designed weapons of mass destruction and automated war. Most have one thing in common: a loss of human control.
And the system many AI experts fear most will spiral out of our grip? Elon Musk’s Grok.
Grok was designed to compete with leading AI systems like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. From the beginning, its selling point has been loose guardrails. When xAI, Musk’s AI startup, debuted Grok in November 2023, the announceme …