Trump spent hours asking Grok how Venezuela would react.
TIME reported that Trump spent hours questioning Elon Musk's chatbot Grok at the White House last December. He asked how Venezuelans would react if America captured Nicolás Maduro, and Grok predicted celebrations. US forces seized Maduro on 3 January, but TIME does not say Grok shaped the order.
Why it mattersA chatbot's guess now sits inside the room where war decisions get made. Grok gives confident answers with no record of how it reached them, and nobody audits it.
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