Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
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An AI system reportedly being consulted on decisions about invading a sovereign country is a hard line-crossing moment for tool use in high-stakes domains. Any organization deploying decision-support AI into political, military, or public-safety contexts needs explicit governance on where the machine’s advice is categorically out of bounds.
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