Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyse data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans.

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At the center of this latest controversy is Elon Musk and his AI chatbot, Grok. Sources say Musk’s internal team, known as DOGE, has started using Grok inside the U.S. federal government, according to Ziare.