SAN FRANCISCO, California — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen Tuesday by AFP.

The June 15 brief defends the gas turbines used by a giant data center belonging to the trillionaire’s company xAI, which are the target of an environmental lawsuit.

Militaries have increasingly been using AI tools to help them assess intelligence and identify potential targets. The IDF reportedly made unprecedented use of AI to find Hamas leaders and hostages during the Gaza war, and last month announced the establishment of a new cyber operations hub tasked with rapidly developing and delivering AI and data-processing platforms to frontline forces.

In the Tuesday legal brief, the US Department of Justice argued that the lawsuit “threatens American national, economic, and energy security by seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations.”

To support the argument, federal prosecutors presented testimony from Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley in which he states, under oath, that Grok is already in use within Project Maven, the US military’s AI-assisted targeting program that was initially powered by Anthropic’s Claude model.

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