Note: This episode contains descriptions of offensive language.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI was forced to issue an apology after its chatbot Grok started spewing violent and antisemitic responses to user prompts last week. We examine why Grok isn’t the only chatbot that has an antisemitism problem and why hate speech might actually be part of the solution.
Guest: Hadas Gold, CNN Correspondent
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