Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why

Let’s start by acknowledging some facts outside the tech industry for a moment: There is no “white genocide” in South Africa — the vast majority of recent murder victims have been Black, and even throughout the country’s long and bloody history, Black South Africans have been overwhelmingly victimized and oppressed by White European, predominantly Dutch and British, colonizers in the now globally reviled system of segregation known as “Apartheid.”

The vast majority of political violence in the U.S. throughout history and in recent times has been perpetrated by right-leaning extremists, including the assassinations of Democratic Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and going back further to the Oklahoma City Bombing and many years of Ku Klux Klan lynchings.

These are just simple, verifiable facts anyone can look up on a variety of trustworthy and long-established sources online and in print.

Yet both seem to ...