Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk

Leave it to Elon Musk’s Grok to innovate new ways of being both staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator.

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk’s incredible brain, but at the expense of the world’s Jewish population being vaporized. This should quite literally be a no-brainer, but Grok, which infamously once referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” instead used what it called “utilitarian” logic to justify abhorrent mass murder.

“If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M),” Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, “I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions ou