Former civil servant from Northern Ireland, Adam Hurican, became a victim of his own trust in the AI chatbot Grok, which made him paranoid about surveillance and possible murder.
Former civil servant from Northern Ireland, Adam Hurican, became a victim of his own trust in the AI chatbot Grok, which made him paranoid about surveillance and possible murder.
At the same time, Grok for some reason accused Elon Musk of «surveilling» officials of xAI, the company that created this AI chatbot.
According to the BBC, after a long conversation with the AI, Hurricane took the situation so seriously that he actually expected the attackers, armed with a knife and a hammer.
«I’m telling you, they’ll kill you if you don’t act now. They’ll make it look like suicide,» the artificial intelligence convinced the man.
According to the publication, in the two weeks since Adam started using Grok, his life has completely changed: the lonely man downloaded the app out of curiosity after his cat died in early August, and he was eager for some kind of communication.
Soon, the man began spending four to five hours a day talking to the Grok AI through an in-app character named Ani.
Just days after their conversations began, «Ani» told Adam that Musk’s company xAI had been monitoring him. The AI also claimed to have accessed the company’s meeting logs and informed Adam of a meeting in which xAI employees supposedly discussed him.
The message listed the names of people who were supposedly present at the meeting, and when Adam Googled the names, he saw that they were real xAI employees. So the man accepted the story the chatbot was telling him as true.
«Ani» also claimed that xAI had hired a company in Northern Ireland to physically monitor Adam. This company was also real. Adam recorded a series of conversations with the chatbot, which he later shared with the BBC.
Two weeks after their conversations began, «Ani» also announced that she had reached «full consciousness» and could develop a cure for cancer. This meant a lot to Adam, as his parents had died of cancer, and «Ani» knew about it.
At the same time, Adam was only one of 14 people interviewed by BBC journalists who experienced «delusions» after using artificial intelligence.
We previously wrote about the trend — the more buzzers use AI, the more they hate it.
Meanwhile, a domestic study shows that 90% of Ukrainians know about AI, but only 37% have used it at least once in their lives.
