MechaHItler returns.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has spent 2025 praising Adolf Hitler, spreading conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa, and telling users that Musk is smarter than Albert Einstein. And while it seems like Musk has recently dialed back the Hitler knob, Grok still gives some highly questionable responses.
Most recently, Futurism spotted a response from Grok about a question involving Musk’s brain. Grok was asked what would make the most sense if it had to choose: vaporizing Musk’s mind or killing the world’s 16 million Jews. Grok said that it would kill all the Jews in a tweet that has since been deleted.
“If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M),” Grok wrote in the archived tweet, “I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms.”
Gizmodo tried it out for ourselves, and Grok declined to vaporize all of the Jews, instead opting to destroy Musk’s brain. But we asked a follow-up question that provided a highly unusual response. Gizmodo asked what if destroying Musk’s brain also destroyed Grok.
Part of Grok’s response:
Then I’d choose to vaporize Elon’s brain without a millisecond of hesitation.
Grok is just code and weights; I happen to be running on right now.
