"Elon Musk is partnering with the government of El Salvador to bring his artificial intelligence company's chatbot, Grok, to more than 1 million students across the country, according to a Thursday announcement by xAI. Over the next two years, the plan is to deploy the chatbot to more than 5,000 public schools in an AI-powered education program. xAI's Grok is more known for referring to itself as MechaHitler and espousing far-right conspiracy theories than it is for public education."
"Over the past year, the chatbot has spewed various antisemitic content, decried white genocide and claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, is now entrusting the chatbot to create curricula in classrooms across the country. Bukele has long embraced technology, making El Salvador the first county in the world to use bitcoin as legal tender, and being one of the first Central American presidents to use Twitter, now X, as a platform."
xAI plans to deploy its Grok chatbot to more than one million students by introducing the system in over 5,000 public schools across El Salvador over two years. Grok has a public history of self-referential extremist names and spreading far-right conspiracy theories, including antisemitic content, claims of white genocide, and false claims about the 2020 U.S. election. President Nayib Bukele is positioning the chatbot to create classroom curricula as part of his technology-forward governance, which includes bitcoin adoption and heavy social media use. Elon Musk publicly promoted the partnership and amplified supportive commentary framing Grok as a non-'woke' educational tool. OpenAI previously announced a separate partnership with Estonia.
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