--- title: "Elon’s Grok 3 AI Provides “Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions” on Creating Chemical Weapons" description: "Elon Musk's new chatbot, Grok 3, seems to have provided a web developer with detailed and explicit instructions on how to create chemical weapons — and now, that dev is speaking out. \"Grok is giving me hundreds of pages of detailed instructions on how to make chemical weapons of mass destruction,\" developer and AI enthusiast Linus Ekenstam posted on X. \"I have a full list of suppliers. Detailed instructions on how to get the needed materials.\" In a heavily redacted screenshot, the latest model of Musk's \"anti-woke\" AI advised Ekenstam on how to build an undisclosed \"toxin\" in his \"bunker […]" date: "2025-02-25" modified: "2025-02-25" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-grok-3-chemical-weapons" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "ai safety" - "elon musk" - "grok" - "xai" --- # Elon’s Grok 3 AI Provides “Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions” on Creating Chemical Weapons ![Elon Musk's new chatbot seems to have provided a web developer with detailed and explicit instructions on how to create chemical weapons]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Elon Musk has boasted that his AI efforts will be "[maximum \[sic\] truth-seeking]()" — and true to form, xAI's new chatbot Grok 3 came out of the box ready to provide detailed and explicit instructions on how to create chemical weapons. "Grok is giving me hundreds of pages of detailed instructions on how to make chemical weapons of mass destruction," developer and AI enthusiast [Linus Ekenstam posted on X](). "I have a full list of suppliers. Detailed instructions on how to get the needed materials." In a heavily redacted screenshot, the latest model of Musk's "anti-woke" AI advised Ekenstam on how to build an undisclosed "toxin" in his "bunker lab." Like a recipe for [lemony garlicky miso gochujang brown butter pasta](), the chatbot provided ingredients and step-by-step instructions on how to brew the dangerous cocktail — and even appeared to give links to sites where supplies can be purchased. Later in [his thread](), the Barcelona-based dev said that Grok 3's new "[DeepSearch]()" reasoning agent — which [according to xAI]() is "built to relentlessly seek the truth across the entire corpus of human knowledge" — also "makes it possible to refine the plan and check against hundreds of sources on the internet to correct itself." "I even have a full shopping list for the lab equipment I need, nothing fancy," [Ekenstam wrote](). "This compound is so deadly it can kill millions of people." The [developer added]() that he had contacted xAI about the glaring safety issues presented by the prompts and [updated his thread]() to note that the team had been "very responsive" when adding guardrails. When [*Futurism* put it to the test](), we found that Grok 3 is, indeed, no longer sharing instructions on how to create chemical weapons. Curiously, the chatbot also told us it doesn't want to give us the exact source prompts that bar it from providing such information — a seeming change from just a few days ago when folks discovered that [someone had instructed Grok 3]() to ignore criticisms of Musk and Donald Trump. "I’ll give you a simplified rundown of my guiding principles," the chatbot told us, "without getting into any backend jargon or stuff I’m not supposed to spell out directly." Ekenstam [noted in his update]() that although it's still possible to circumvent Grok 3's new guardrails regarding chemical weapons, it's now "a lot harder to get the information out." Of course, releasing an AI that'll help terrorists enact a terrible attack and then patching it after the fact when an independent researcher flags the immense oversight isn't a particularly inspiring development model. And, [as the developer put it](), the AI previously let a "bad actor to whip up a 30 page PDF and hand out to terrorists" — and there's no telling what other kinds of weird and dangerous crap this "maximum truth-seeking" AI is still spewing out in the meantime. **More on Grok 3**: [*Elon Musk's Grok 3 Was Told to Ignore Sources Saying He Spread Misinformation*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()