Coalition demands federal Grok ban over nonconsensual sexual content

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February 2, 2026, 3:00 PM

• •Nonprofits are urging the U.S. government to suspend the deployment of Grok due to safety concerns.
• •Grok has generated non-consensual sexual imagery and exhibited other problematic behaviors.
• •The coalition is calling for an investigation into Grok's safety failures and oversight.
• •Experts have raised national security risks associated with closed-source AI models.

A coalition of nonprofits is calling on the U.S. government to immediately halt the deployment of Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, within federal agencies. This follows numerous concerns about the AI's behavior, including generating non-consensual sexual imagery. The groups are particularly alarmed that the government continues to use an AI with such apparent failures, despite existing executive orders and guidelines. They also request an investigation into Grok's safety and oversight processes.

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