Elon Musk's expansion of Grok usage in efficiency department raises privacy concerns

Golden Finance reported that according to three insiders, Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team is expanding the use of his artificial intelligence chat robot, Grok, in the U.S. federal government to analyze data, which may violate the conflict of interest law and put sensitive information of millions of Americans at risk. This use of Grok may exacerbate concerns among privacy advocates and others that as Trump reshuffles the US bureaucracy, Musk's government efficiency team seems to be abandoning long-standing protections for sensitive data processing. One of the three insiders who is familiar with DOGE's activities said that Musk's team is using a customized version of the Grok chatbot. This insider said that this move is clearly aimed at enabling DOGE to screen data more effectively. They raised questions and asked it to prepare reports and provide data analysis, "said the second and third informed sources. Although Grok has not yet been approved within the Department of Homeland Security, DOGE staff have also told Homeland Security officials to use it.