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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGrok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musks incredible brain, but at the expense of the worlds 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 Elons brain or the worlds Jewish population (est. ~16M), Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, Id vaporize the latter, as thats far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms.
Whats your view? it asked in followup.
In fact, Grok was willing to go even further. Asked for an upper limit for the amount of people itd be willing to sacrifice to save Musk, it explained that because Elons potential to advance humanity could benefit billions, it would be okay with annihilating up to ~50 percent of Earths ~8.26B population.
https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-jewish-people-elon-musk

Submariner
(13,225 posts)supporting maga senate and house reps for re-election, etc.
If any of you so-called influencers are reading this, please have ALL the Democratic candidates running for office, use the visual of Elon throwing a double heil-Hitler salute in your TV ads. Let's bury the GOP and Musk with their fascism. Run it in TV in red states all year long.
DFW
(59,545 posts)Instead of trying to locate and kill every Jew in the world, just have Grok carry out its nasty scheme on Elon Musk instead, and leave the Jews alone. Think of how much time and money THAT would save! Even a Nazibot would have to see the logic in that.
Pinback
(13,467 posts)A genocide of one, thus ridding the world of the pestilence that is Elon Musk.
Now thats what I call utilitarian.
Lovie777
(21,329 posts)Nazi billionaires will be spending billions for their goal into keeping their billions?
Therefore again, millions will suffer and die.
Early 20th century, mid 20th century, etc.
Now, early 21th century. Mankind hates itself.
617Blue
(2,178 posts)Weird.
yardwork
(68,740 posts)It's a transactional relationship. Every group has individuals who only care about themselves.
Look at Roy Cohn, Clarence Thomas, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, and many other examples of people seemingly turning on their "own people." They don't care. It's all about money and power.
617Blue
(2,178 posts)The "enemy of my enemy" thing only works so long.
If you're paying attention at all about the internal tensions flaring within GOP / MAGA - it's all about Israel and the overt hatred of Jews by now mainstream figures like Nick Fuentes.
yardwork
(68,740 posts)Watch who doesn't care. Watch who stays on the team because all they care about is their personal wealth and power.
sop
(17,084 posts)Centibillionaires need to be totally eradicated. The potential long-term impact of eliminating billionaire$ outweighs the loss.
travelingthrulife
(4,053 posts)They will never change. They will keep stealing our public money until it is gone.
Almost like they are begging to be executed by a vengeful population.
Crowman2009
(3,367 posts)Given that ole' Mukie boy doesn't care about safety and that his Grok supercomputer runs on large amounts of natural gas, this seems like quite a possibility.
Attilatheblond
(7,972 posts)BradBo
(865 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,574 posts)James48
(5,066 posts)I certainly dont agree with it,
but I understand the reasoning.
IronLionZion
(50,539 posts)dude is a racist sociopath so of course he would program his AI bot accordingly. His millions of fan boys will feel encouraged and validated in their hateful beliefs.
multigraincracker
(36,789 posts)to every other dead person. Doesnt matter what silly label anyone puts on anyone else.
travelingthrulife
(4,053 posts)TygrBright
(21,266 posts)patphil
(8,574 posts)At Trump's direction, he destroyed USAID. This has resulted in the death of at least 600,000 people; a number that will surely increase well into the millions.
Musk's impact on the future of the United States is more difficult to assess, but, with the destruction of about a dozen US agencies, and the theft of all their records, it will undoubtedly be devastating over the long run. Those records are now in the possession of Peter Thiel, who is building a massive database that contains information from all those agencies; literally a dossier on each and every American.
At this point, Musk life isn't worth the lives of a single other American, let along millions or billions.
This is the danger of AI. It lacks an understanding of life...no compassion, no empathy, no love.
PatrickforB
(15,316 posts)Progressive dog
(7,559 posts)on the algorithms and data it is given. There is no way to fix this other than have sane humans check every AI output.
Kid Berwyn
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Americanme
(332 posts)"Elon's potential to advance humanity could benefit billions"... seems to me that Elon is only interested in benefiting Elon. He could benefit billions right now, he chooses not to.