Senator Warren Demands Pentagon Answers on Granting xAI Classified Network Access
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Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a formal letter to the Pentagon on March 16 demanding justification for granting xAI and its Grok chatbot access to classified networks, citing Grok's documented harmful outputs including CSAM generation and flagging it as a potential national security risk. The letter follows a new lawsuit against xAI filed by teenagers whose photos were allegedly used to generate nonconsensual AI imagery. Warren's intervention escalates the political pressure around AI-in-government decisions that previously centered on Anthropic's Pentagon exclusion.