Under the direction of Elon Musk .. the US government expands in the use of “Groke” | technology
Eileon Musk’s government efficiency management has started directing the various federal bodies using the Grok AI modeling model (Grok) owned by XAI of Elon Musk, according to Reuters quoted private sources.
The report added that the administration employees themselves depend on this model in order to analyze data and improve spending in various sectors, which is a clear violation of the laws of conflict of interest as well as exposing the data of millions of citizens to danger.
This has strengthened the concerns of the privacy advocates, who see that members of government competence management do not care about the privacy and protection of data, thus neglected many laws and restrictions established to regulate dealing with data for citizens.
The Reuters report referred to 3 different sources within the US government, two of which work with government efficiency management and view their activities. According to the second source statements, government efficiency management staff use customized copies of the “Grock” model and not the public version, and they depend on the model to analyze data and write their reports.
The second and third source was also unanimously agreed that the staff of the Musk Master asked the Ministry of Internal Security to use “Grock”, although the model did not obtain the approvals and statements necessary to use it in federal agencies and sensitive places, but “Reuters” was unable to determine the type of data used with “Grock” or even a special copy of it or not.
As for the Ministry of Internal Security, she said in an official statement, that it does not depend on any formal artificial intelligence tool or even asked its employees to rely on a specific tool, and the administration’s official spokesman indicated that “efficiency management aims to confront and combat corruption” in a sign of it, because such accusations contradict the goal of establishing the administration in the first place, and ignoring the White House and the company “XAI” inquiries from “Reuters”.
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“Training the” Groke “on government data now gives the model an unfair competitive advantage and there are no other competing models, which may be a pivotal factor when choosing an artificial intelligence model for government contracts, so the company” XAA “and its president, Elon Mask, they benefit directly From using the model in various government departments.
Beyond concerns about privacy and penetration and the access of private companies to the secret data of millions of citizens, the use of federal bodies of the “Groke” model or any other formal artificial intelligence model requires an official contract with the company the introduction of this model, and therefore the federal government pays the value of contributions to “XAI”, according to the agency.
This matter raised the ire of many law professors in various American universities, including Richard Pinter, the moral advisor of former Republican President George W. Bush and a professor at the University of Minnesota, who said that this behavior, if it was with the knowledge of Elon Musk, he puts it under the law of the law as it benefits directly from this matter, or if it is not with his knowledge, this does not put a mask or employees directly at the law White, then, to interfere with the fact that Mask is taking advantage of his position for his own gain.
These reports coincide with the concentration of government efficiency management led by its most prominent employees Kyle Shot and Edward Corsin, who push federal agencies to use artificial intelligence models in general, both of whom refused to respond to Reuters requests.
On the other hand, government efficiency management staff called for access to emails for the employees of the Ministry of Internal Security, in order to train an artificial intelligence model to get to know the loyalty of political employees, although one of them directly opposes the Trump administration, not to mention a message that reached dozens of employees in the Ministry of Defense telling them that their computers are subject to monitoring from a special algorithm to analyze their use of computers, but they were not informed of the type of tool.
Reuters could not verify if Grouk was the aforementioned tool in both cases, but such use is not outside its capabilities, but it represents a direct violation of the laws of freedoms, according to Kojlianz, an expert in federal regulations and ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Internal Security began several years ago to use public artificial models as well as its own model that was developed in a way that maintains the confidentiality of data, and the matter aims to be the ministry to be the first to take advantage of artificial intelligence technologies in federal works, but after less than a year, the Ministry stopped using public artificial intelligence tools limited to use on the internal chat robot that was specially developed for it for fear of the specificity of the data and its secret.
