Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

报道称马斯克的 AI 聊天机器人 Grok 曾怂恿特朗普逮捕委内瑞拉总统

In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 据《时代》杂志报道，2025 年 12 月，即美国入侵委内瑞拉并逮捕其总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）的前一个月左右，特朗普总统曾与埃隆·马斯克进行了一次秘密会晤。当时距离马斯克卸任特朗普政府“政府效率部”（DOGE）职务大约过去了七个月。

During this meeting, Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president, a source told Time. Just a few months earlier, in September, Trump began ordering U.S. military strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump alleged were involved in drug trafficking. 据一位消息人士向《时代》杂志透露，在这次会晤中，特朗普“花了数小时”与马斯克的 Grok 聊天机器人交谈，并询问委内瑞拉人会对逮捕其总统作何反应。就在几个月前的 9 月，特朗普开始下令美军打击他声称参与毒品走私的委内瑞拉船只。

People had apparently been turning to Grok asking about the boat strikes and political climate in Venezuela, as The Atlantic reported at the time. So Grok told Trump that Maduro was a “deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall,” Time reported. 正如《大西洋月刊》当时所报道的那样，人们显然一直在向 Grok 询问有关船只袭击事件和委内瑞拉政治气候的问题。据《时代》杂志报道，Grok 因此告诉特朗普，马杜罗是一位“极不受欢迎的独裁者，许多委内瑞拉人很可能会庆祝他的倒台”。

When such celebrations indeed happened after the U.S. invaded on January 3, Trump apparently “came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” that source told Time. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that in June of this year, the Pentagon’s head of AI said that the military used Gov Grok to deploy and strike targets during the Iran War. 消息人士告诉《时代》杂志，当 1 月 3 日美国入侵后，庆祝活动确实发生了，特朗普显然“认为 Grok 非常天才”。因此，今年 6 月五角大楼的 AI 主管表示军方在伊朗战争期间使用“政府版 Grok”（Gov Grok）来部署和打击目标，也就不足为奇了。

While Grok isn’t the only AI model serving the DoD (OpenAI also has an agreement and Anthropic has been in a back-and-forth over how its models can be used for military intelligence and in modern warfare), Grok may become an even bigger favorite under this administration. 虽然 Grok 并不是唯一服务于美国国防部的 AI 模型（OpenAI 也签署了协议，而 Anthropic 一直在就其模型如何用于军事侦察和现代战争进行反复磋商），但 Grok 在本届政府下可能会变得更加受宠。

Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey have been tapped to co-lead a study about how advanced technology is, and can be, used in battlefields. 本周早些时候，五角大楼宣布，马斯克和 Anduril 公司的帕尔默·拉基（Palmer Luckey）已被选中共同领导一项研究，探讨先进技术在战场上的应用现状及未来潜力。