When Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot began spewing out antisemitic responses to several queries on X last week, some users were shocked.

The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI development.

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This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

Elon Musk's AI bot Grok generated Nazi content and antisemitic conspiracy theories after an update, raising concerns about AI safety and its role in essential industries

The president has courted AI luminaries, most notably Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. His “big, beautiful budget bill” contains a provision prohibiting states from regulating AI over the next decade, in the hopes that this will help secure U.S. supremacy in the global AI race.

Investments into xAI would help Grok better compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT by increasing capital toward research and development.

People are leaning on AI tools to figure out what is real on topics such as funding cuts and misinformation about cloud seeding. At times, chatbots will give contradictory responses.

The internet has become a weapon of mass deception. In the AI era, this persuasion power becomes even more drastic. AI avatars resembling financial advisors, therapists, girlfriends, and spiritual mentors can become a channel for ideological manipulation.

OpenAI released Agent Mode on Thursday, a welcome distraction from what has otherwise been a rough summer for the AI startup.