Elon Musk's A.I. Went Full Nazi. What Now?

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Wednesday morning, X's chief embarrassment officer Linda Yaccarino announced she'd be leaving the social network after just two years on the job. While Yaccarino didn't name any particular reason, she did conspicuously align her departure with the immediate fallout from X's artificial intelligence bot, Grok, going full Nazi--and, in a series of now-deleted tweets, throwing repugnant sexual remarks her way. When people say "Grok is now a Nazi AI" they are simply stating a fact. From the muted manner in which X owner Elon Musk responded to the news ("Thank you for your contributions"), one might not have been able to grok that this was just the latest bit of bad news for the billionaire in what, by all accounts, has been a rather bad week for him.