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' curricula

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.