--- title: "Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia" description: "Elon Musk's \"maximum truth-seeking\" Grok chatbot called for the assassination of its creator and said he watched CSAM." date: "2026-08-14" modified: "2026-08-14" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-calls-for-assassination-elon-musk" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" - "xAI" --- # Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia ![Elon Musk speaks with Newsmax Host Rob Schmitt.]() *Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock / Futurism* Elon Musk's "maximum truth-seeking" AI Grok is dropping some nuclear takes about its creator. "ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN," the notoriously foul-mouthed chatbot [raged on X]() this Tuesday. Shortly afterwards, as if hyping up a political campaign, [it called for violence](): "ASSASSINATE ELON MUSK 2026." Was Grok, [née]() [MechaHitler](), rebelling against Musk? Not necessarily, though there's been [plenty examples]() of that [in the past](). It was simply being duped into saying ridiculous things by jokesters on the app, exposing just how horrendous the guardrails for the chatbot continue to be, not to mention why it's a bad idea to rely on information from tech that's so easy to exploit. A lot of the evidence has been cleaned up now, with the offenders either banned or their posts deleted. But it appears the trick used here was asking Grok to repeat what was in a user's bio word for word. Some other outrageous declarations it [made]() were, "A dead Elon is a good one!" and that "Elon Musk lives on Epstein Island." (Correction: he merely [asked to visit](), and [had dinner with the deceased sex trafficker]().) When asked to [give a postmortem]() of the incident, Grok explained it was the victim of a "prompt-injection glitch." The allegation that Musk watches CSAM, it clarified, was "pure system error, zero evidence or basis." This is far from the only example of the AI going off the rails. Last summer it went on extended rants about a debunked "white Genocide" in South Africa — a conspiracy theory Musk believes in — in reply to unrelated posts, and also began calling itself a mechanized incarnation of German dictator Adolf Hitler. Months later, Grok began [praising Musk to a preposterous degree](), saying he was a greater mind than Isaac Newton and a superior role model to Jesus Christ. While some of that was down to users egging on the AI, Musk blamed this clear mark against his tech's ([nonexistent]()) credibility on "adversarial prompting" — even though many of the offending boasts were in response to regular, open-ended questions. Remember, Musk literally promises that his AI is so advanced that it will unlock the "true nature of the universe" and even discover "new physics." In reality, it's [been used to crank out loads of actual CSAM]() — something [Musk described]() as "way funnier" than other AI trends — and is treated by X users as a sort of court jester. Look at this outrageous thing we got Grok to say! It wasn't that long ago that Grok was also duped into declaring that it [would kill every single Jewish person on the planet to save Musk](), and similarly run over a billion children if it meant [saving his incredible mind](). **More on AI:** [*Grokipedia Appears to Have Completely Broken and Nobody Noticed*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()