Recent news has been circulating in the international media, which says that Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok was used in the bombing and attacks on Iran. A senior CIA official gave a sworn statement in a lawsuit against the trillionaire. The lawsuit surrounds the idea that the xAI data centres are illegally polluting Black communities. The CIA AI officer revealed that a different generative AI model was used, namely the Grok Gov Model, a commercial offering. This model was used to identify 2,000 distinct targets in Iran in just 96 hours. Now, it is clear that AI has been used by armies for warfare and related services. It is claimed that Operation Epic Fury was assisted by AI models that presented data on dashboards to aid officials in their decision-making.

Now, it is clear that these AI models do not make the decisions, but they do become very handy in identifying potential targets for armies. AI is being used in all decision-making at some point. It is a growing concern and should be a great concern for policymakers and the state. In one of Al Jazeera’s reports, they said that a US-led military facility in southern........

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