In July 2025 it was announced in style. Grok already has a son, a Baby Grok for children to play with him. Specifically, it is a child version of Grok. With this, he wants the children to get used to the AI, to have them hooked since they have reason.
It is assumed that this artificial intelligence for children will answer simple questions, will tell stories and riddles, will sing songs … although knowing the owner of X, he can go out with anything. This is precisely what puts the hair to the experts.
Specifically, Federico Juárez, director of the UCAM chair of AI has wanted to make it clear in COPE that this new app created by Elon Musk is about «A monster disguised as a Walt Disney character» and a «massive manipulation weapon.» «I would not leave, of course, I have two daughters, I would not leave my daughters in the hands of an application designed by Elon Musk»he adds.
The expert explained in The flashlight That this application creates affective links with users who, in the case of children and adolescents, can even be dangerous. In addition, he speaks very seriously about the emotional dependence that the AI generates, especially in young people who see in these systems «a friend who does not judge.»
The psychologist José de Sosa also alert in COPE From the risk of new digital addictions, and Juarez sees it clear: extending this type of technologies without parental control is to leave a watchmaking pump.
Specifically, he has talked about a scenario that qualifies as a «Oppenheimer Moment» of artificial intelligence, that is, a point where it is vital for all to decide what ethical, legal and social limits apply to technologies with potential to fully influence human behavior.
Attentive Elon Musk, Grok is already in the spotlight of the experts
His artificial intelligence Grok, which according to the billionaire CEO of Tesla is «the most intelligent AI on earth,» a good dose of controversy accumulates since its launch. Not only for how he behaves when dealing with delicate issues, but for doubts about their safety and reliability.
Experts warn that the permissiveness with which Grok treats certain issues may not remain in harmless issues, but to climb much more serious problems such as the possible mass misinformation Or, even, facilitation when creating biological weapons.
The problem comes from afar. Grok has always shown a ‘rebel vein’, without the ethical restrictions that other the competition as chatgpt or claude apply. This has generated great concern, especially because the United States Department of Defense has signed millionaire contracts to use Grok, just as it has done with other systems.
An American senator, Elizabeth Warren, has been one of the voices that alert about the risk that Grok can be filtering government information to companies linked to Musk, a character who, remember, played a right hand role in the Trump administration.
Here you can say that transparency shines for its absence. Grok is one of the less transparent AI in the sector, and those responsible seem to bet more to fix problems after their appearance than to prevent them from the design. This, especially if we put a ‘adapted’ version for children, worries and much.
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Tags: Inteligencia artificial, Apps, Elon Musk, Software