In United States military operations against Iran the Grok artificial intelligence tool of Elon Musk was used, according to a court record of the American government that came into his possession. French Agency - AFP.
The disclosure is contained in a document lodged on 15 June in the context of a judicial dispute concerning the operation of a data centre of XAI, its subsidiary SpaceX active in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and social media.
In the memo, the American Justice Ministry defends the use of energy-fuelled gas turbines a large xAI data center, an artificial intelligence company owned by Elon Musk. The turbines are the subject of an environmental lawsuit filed against the company.
According to the document, the lawsuit "It threatens the United States' national, economic and energy security, as it seeks to cut off power supply to develop artificial intelligence that supports the military operations of the War Department".
In order to strengthen their argument, federal prosecutors quoted affidavit of the Pentagon's head of artificial intelligence, Cameron Stanley. In his testimony he states that Grok is already being used in the context of Project Maven, the US Army's program to identify targets with the help of artificial intelligence, which originally operated with the model Claude The Anthropic.
As stated in the deposit, systems Maven Smart Systems (MSS) "They allowed American forces to use more than 2,000 ammunition against 2,000 different targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury".
Stanley also praises her technology xAI, speaking for ‘significantly increased operational efficiency made possible thanks to the Grok Gov model’.
The revelation comes within the framework of the judicial confrontation between the xAI and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights organization in the United States.
NAACP accuses the company of operating dozens of gas turbines without the necessary permits, in violation of the Clean Air Act (Clean Air Act). According to the lawsuit, facilities cause pollution in neighborhoods where mostly African Americans reside.
For its part, xAI argues that these turbines are temporary and mobile, which, according to the company, excludes them from the relevant regulatory requirements.