The rise of AI chatbots creates three main risks for Jews. 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. (…) Thus far, AI companies have done little to contend with these challenges, and national or international regulation is unlikely to change that anytime soon. For example, this week, xAI announced that it had taken new measures to ensure that Grok no longer publishes false or antisemitic comments by limiting the chatbot’s reliance on statements made by Musk. Yet this is a mere bandaid on a hemorrhaging AI wound, as these measures will not prevent users from actively using Grok to generate hateful content. Nor will they prevent Grok from accessing and repeating biases that exist in its training data — including data that is biased against Jews.
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