Agriculture Department plans to use Grok, despite growing concerns over the chatbot (exclusive)

# USDA to Use Grok Chatbot Despite Safety Red Flags The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will use Grok, an AI chatbot made by Elon Musk's company xAI, even though other federal agencies have rejected it over safety concerns. Grok has a troubling track record, including generating hate speech and being used to create nonconsensual intimate images, and it has failed internal government safety reviews for being too easy to manipulate. The decision is a rare government win for Grok, as most other agencies have chosen competing AI tools from Google and OpenAI instead.