Eye on AI: Behind Grok’s Racist Debacle
Racists and trolls smirked when Elon Musk’s Grok AI was caught “propagating antisemitic talking points, fantasizing about rape, and blaming Mossad for the death of Jeffrey Epstein,” notes Mary Harrington at UnHerd, but the tech-besotted fallacy here is the faith that “a big enough pattern-recognition engine will converge on both truth and consciousness.”
True wisdom is “not just an ability to notice patterns”; it requires “contextual awareness and common sense.” Sadly, we have “bracketed” reflection on the meanings of truth and consciousness, and so “are woefully short of mental tools for parsing these subtle questions.”
Conservative: Dems’ Violent Rage
“We’re just now learning how angry” Dems are about Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, mourns the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, as some “are calling on their elected representatives to engage in violence against Trump’s policies.”
One anonymous lawmaker even said, “ ‘civility isn’t working’ and