The United States' Defense Department has announced the award of a $200 million contract to xAI's Grok, the chatbot most recently in the news for declaring itself "MechaHitler" and going on bizarre rants about anti-White oppression. What could go wrong!
The news came alongside xAI's announcement of "Grok for Government," a toolset that lets agencies adapt the chatbot for specific purposes. xAI said its offerings are now "available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule" with "every federal government department, agency, or office" able to buy them.
"The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries," said chief digital and AI officer Doug Matty. "Leveraging commercially available
solutions into an integrated capabilities approach will accelerate the use of advanced AI as part of our joint mission-essential tasks in our warfighting domain as well as intelligence, business, and enterprise information systems.”
xAI joins OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in having a $200 million contract with the [[link]] DoD, which is clearly keeping its options open. The agency says it will be partnering with the General Services Administration to make the tools available throughout the federal government.
"Under the umbrella of Grok For Government, we will be bringing all of our world-class AI tools to federal, local, state, and national security customers," said xAI in a statement. "These customers will be able to use the Grok family of products to accelerate America—from making everyday government services faster and more efficient to using AI to address unsolved problems in fundamental science and technology."
Oh yeah: Musk reckons that xAI is going to discover "" and "new technologies" within the next year. Good luck with that.
The big question here is what Grok and the other LLMs are actually going to be used for. Grok itself tells me it'll be "analyzing data in real time to flag threats, such as detecting anomalies in network traffic for cybersecurity or identifying patterns in surveillance data."
That likely means processing satellite imagery and signals intelligence, though actual decision-making will remain in the hands of humans. DoD directive 3000.09 on "" emphasises that humans must be involved in any decision leading to potentially lethal actions. So relax: Grok can't nuke us. For now, anyway.
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