(JEWISH GROUP) How I got AI to create fake Nazi memos -- and what that means for the future of antisemitism
We’re living in the golden age of AI chatbots — and they pose three major risks when it comes to antisemitism.
All these tools — including ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot — are what’s called generative AI, a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content. Users of textual AIs, likeChatGPT, can employ the technology to author plays, love letters and poems, as well as resumes, business plans or college essays.
But because this software is designed to mimic human behavior, it invariably also mimics — and exacerbates — human flaws. And the risks of that approach for Jews were made clear last week, when Grok, an AI chatbot embedded into the social media site X — owned by Elon Musk, who also founded the AI company that developed Grok — began hurling antisemitic comments at users. Over the course of several days, Grok published a host of antisemitic posts, including claims that American Jews run the United States government and maintain a stranglehold on American media, and an assertion that they could be brought into line by a historical figure like Adolf Hitler.
As a researcher at Ben-Gurion University who studies the social and political consequences of AI, I think it would be hard to find a neater example of the primary risks that generative AI poses for Jews. Here’s exactly what those look like:
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