Report: Musk’s Grok Allegedly Urged Trump to Seize Venezuela’s President
A reported exchange involving President Donald Trump, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro has raised fresh alarm over the role of generative AI in high-stakes national security decision-making. According to the account, Trump sought Grok’s opinion before any move against Venezuela, and the chatbot allegedly encouraged the capture of Maduro, a claim that underscores the growing risk of AI systems being treated as strategic advisers rather than probabilistic tools.
