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Pentagon confirms Elon Musk's Grok AI was used to target 2,000 air strikes in Iran war

In a sworn federal court declaration, Pentagon artificial intelligence chief Cameron Stanley confirmed that the US military used Elon Musk's proprietary Grok AI to select and coordinate bombing targets. The system was reportedly used to fire over 2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets within a 96-hour window. The confirmation emerged during a major Clean Air Act lawsuit filed by the NAACP against xAI. The lawsuit alleges that xAI illegally deployed portable combustion turbines that filled adjacent Black and working-class neighborhoods with toxic fumes to power its AI data centers. The DOJ and the Pentagon are now pressuring the federal judge to dismiss the case, citing Grok's operation as a matter of "paramount national security." The air campaign in Iran has claimed at least 3,468 lives, including a strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school that killed 156 people, including over 100 children. While the military previously used Anthropic's Claude to select targets, officials refused to confirm whether Claude was used specifically for the school bombing.