A Time magazin értesülései szerint Donald Trump 2025 decemberében egy titkos találkozón órákon át beszélgetett Elon Musk Grok nevű chatbotjával. Az elnök arról kérdezte az MI-asszisztenst, hogyan reagálnának a venezuelaiak, ha elfognák az elnöküket, Nicolás Madurót. A chatbot azt válaszolta, hogy a diktátor rendkívül népszerűtlen, így a lakosság valószínűleg ünnepelni fogja a bukását.
Miután az amerikai hadsereg 2026 januárjában valóban lerohanta az országot és a jóslat beigazolódott, Trump zseniálisnak nevezte az eszközt. A Pentagon azóta már élesben is használja a technológiát, a védelmi minisztérium MI-vezetője szerint a Grok Gov verziót bevetették az iráni háború során is. Bár az OpenAI és az Anthropic is együttműködik a hadsereggel, Musk chatbotja egyre nagyobb szerephez juthat.
A Pentagon a napokban kérte fel Elon Muskot és Palmer Luckeyt, az Anduril alapítóját, hogy vezessenek egy közös kutatást a fejlett technológiák harctéri alkalmazásáról.
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In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
During this meeting, Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president, a source told Time. Just a few months earlier, in September, Trump began ordering U.S. military strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump alleged were involved in drug trafficking.
People had apparently been turning to Grok asking about the boat strikes and political climate in Venezuela, as The Atlantic reported at the time. So Grok told Trump that Maduro was a “deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall,” Time reported.
When such celebrations indeed happened after the U.S. invaded on January 3, Trump apparently “came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” that source told Time.
So perhaps it should come as no surprise that in June of this year, the Pentagon’s head of AI said that the military used Grok Gov to deploy and strike targets during the Iran War.
While Grok isn’t the only AI model serving the DoD (OpenAI also has an agreement and Anthropic has been in a back-and-forth over how its models can be used for military intelligence and in modern warfare), Grok may become an even bigger favorite under this administration. Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey have been tapped to co-lead a study about how advanced technology is, and can be, used in battlefields.
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