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Joshua Hong

‘It will inherit your thoughts’: Musk tells SpaceX employees they’ll be Grok’s ‘parents’ as AI trains on company data

White House Senior Advisor, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks during a Town Hall event at KI Convention Center. (Credit: Photo by Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Elon Musk is asking SpaceX employees to think of themselves as more than rocket-builders—he wants them to be “parents” of the company’s AI. During a recent SpaceX all-hands meeting, the world’s richest-man said the company plans to train its GrokAI on the “sum total” of SpaceX’s information, including the work and contributions of its employees.

The meeting—shared by SpaceX on X—was posted on Tuesday morning. Musk told workers they would “effectively be the parents of the AI,” because Grok would inherit their “thoughts and ideas and beliefs.” Musk presented the arrangement, arguing that SpaceX’s workforce includes some of the world’s strongest engineers and that their collective knowledge could help shape a more capable AI system.

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