or The Pentagon official disclosed in a court filing earlier this week that the US military used a version of Elon Musk artificial intelligence tool, Grok, to help carry out attacks on Iran.
Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, wrote in a sworn statement in a federal court in Mississippi that the US military “relies on derivatives of the Musk-led xAI commercial offering known as the Grok Gov Model”.
The model, which is used inside the Pentagon The smart Maven system“enabled US forces to place over 2,000 munitions on 2,000 separate targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury,” the Trump administration’s name for the war the president launched against Iran in late February.
Stanley’s statement came as part of a lawsuit the NAACP filed against xAI last year, accusing Musk’s company illegally operates dozens of polluting gas turbines for its Colossus 2 data center, which powers Grok.
Defending xAI, Stanley asserted in his statement that if Grok “cannot be deployed, refined and improved” throughout the Pentagon “due to power supply constraints or limited reserve computational capability, such as those claimed by the plaintiffs in this case, the many tools deployed by military and civilian personnel, which will be severely affected at Gok.”
Department of Defense RECEIVED Shortly after launching its attack on Iran, the US military was “using an array of advanced AI tools” to help “sift massive amounts of data in seconds so our leaders can cut through the noise and make smarter decisions faster than the enemy can react.”
In one Letter of March 12 Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth, a group of more than 120 people House Democrats requested details on “artificial intelligence’s role … in target selection, intelligence assessment and legal determinations during Operation Epic Fury.”
Lawmakers specifically asked whether AI tools were used to identify a Iranian primary school as a target. On the first day of the Iran war, the US military bombed a girls’ school in southern Iran, killing more than 150 people, mostly young people. the children.
Stanley’s statement did not identify any of the “2,000 separate targets” he said were attacked with the help of Gov Grok’s Model.
