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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter<\/a> to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday expressing concern over the Pentagon\u2019s decision to give Elon Musk\u2019s company xAI access to classified networks.<\/p>\n \u201cGrok, the controversial AI model developed by xAI, has provided disturbing outputs for users, including giving users \u2018advice on how to commit murders and terrorist attacks,\u2019 generating antisemitic content, and creating child sexual abuse material,\u201d the letter reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n Warren said Grok\u2019s \u201capparent lack of adequate guardrails\u201d could pose \u201cserious risks to the safety of U.S. military personnel and to the cybersecurity of classified systems.\u201d She demanded Hegseth provide information on how the Department of Defense plans to \u201cmitigate these potential national security risks.\u201d<\/p>\n Warren isn\u2019t the first to express alarm at Grok, xAI\u2019s controversial chatbot, gaining access to classified systems. Last month, a coalition of nonprofits urged<\/a> the government to immediately suspend the deployment of Grok in federal agencies<\/a>, including the DoD, after X users repeatedly prompted the chatbot to turn real photos of women, and in some cases children, into sexualized images<\/a> without their consent. The same day Warren sent her letter, a class action lawsuit was filed against xAI alleging Grok had generated sexual content from real images of the plaintiffs as minors.\u00a0<\/p>\n The letter comes in the aftermath of the Pentagon\u2019s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk<\/a> after the AI firm refused to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems. Anthropic had been, until recently, the only AI company with classified-ready systems. In the midst of that conflict, the DoD signed an agreement with OpenAI<\/a> as well as xAI to use the two companies\u2019 AI systems in classified networks, according to Axios<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n A senior Pentagon official confirmed that Grok was onboarded to be used in a classified setting, but is not yet being used. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is unclear what assurances or documentation xAI has provided to the Department of Defense about Grok\u2019s security safeguards, data-handling practices, or safety controls, and whether DoD has evaluated those assurances before reportedly allowing Grok access to classified system,\u201d Warren writes.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco, CA<\/span> Warren requested a copy of the deal reportedly reached between the DoD and xAI on the use of Grok in classified systems and an explanation of how the department plans to ensure Grok is not exposed to cyberattacks and will \u201cnot leak sensitive or classified military information.\u201d<\/p>\n (Last week, a former employee of Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole<\/a> Americans\u2019 personal data from the Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive \u2014 the latest accusation of DOGE-related data leakage<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the department \u201clooks forward to deploying Grok to its official AI platform GenAI.mil in the very near future.\u201d<\/p>\n
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