American tech media outlet TechCrunch reported, citing The Times magazine, that sources said that in December 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump held a secret meeting with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. During the meeting, Trump spent several hours conversing with Musk's chatbot Grok, particularly asking about how Venezuelans would react to the possible kidnapping of their president, Nicolas Maduro.
It is reported that as early as September 2025, Trump began ordering the U.S. military to target Venezuelan vessels, claiming that these vessels were involved in drug trafficking.
According to a report by the magazine 《Time》, Grok told Trump that Maduro is "an extremely unpopular dictator, and many Venezuelans may celebrate his downfall."
According to sources, on January 3rd, after the United States launched large-scale military operations against Venezuela and kidnapped Maduro and his wife, celebrations indeed took place. Trump thought that Grok was clever.
According to reports, therefore, the head of artificial intelligence at the U.S. Department of Defense said in June this year that it might not be surprising for the military to use Gov Grok to deploy troops and target enemies during the war with Iran.
Grok is not the only AI model that serves the U.S. Department of Defense, but reports suggest that during this administration, Grok may become more favored.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis announced on September 30 that Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, the founder of defense technology company Nuvify, and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich will jointly lead a research project at the Pentagon concerning future forms of warfare.
