Elon Musk teams with El Salvador to bring Grok chatbot to public schools
President Nayib Bukele entrusting chatbot known for calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ to create ‘AI-powered’ curriculaElon 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,...
<p>President Nayib Bukele entrusting chatbot known for calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ to create ‘AI-powered’ curricula</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> is partnering with the government of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/el-salvador">El Salvador </a>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”.</p><p>xAI’s Grok is more known for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/15/x-esafety-ai-chatbot-grok-ntwnfb">referring to itself as “MechaHitler”</a> and espousing far-right conspiracy theories than it is for public education. Over the past year, the chatbot has spewed various <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-praised-hitler-antisemitism-x-ntwnfb">antisemitic content</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide">decried “white genocide”</a> and claimed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/elon-musk-grok-ai-trump-2020-presidential-election">Donald Trump won the 2020 election</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/11/elon-musk-el-salvador-grok">Continue reading...</a>
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