The Pentagon will deploy Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot alongside Google’s generative AI across classified and unclassified networks as part of a wider push to infuse military systems with artificial intelligence, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. The move comes as Grok faces international scrutiny for producing sexualized deepfakes, prompting blocks in Malaysia and Indonesia and a U.K. investigation. Hegseth said the department will make extensive operational and intelligence data available for AI “exploitation,” signaling a faster, less restrictive posture than Biden-era rules that curbed certain national-security uses. He emphasized battlefield utility over ideological constraints, even as watchdogs and civil-liberties advocates warn of risks from surveillance and autonomous capabilities. The Pentagon did not address Grok’s recent controversies.
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