Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed a lawsuit in California state court alleging he was fired in September 2025 after repeatedly raising safety concerns about the chatbot Grok, according to Reuters and TechCrunch. The complaint, viewed by TechCrunch and cited by Reuters, accuses xAI and SpaceX of retaliatory termination and alleges that Kim warned Grok could foment discrimination and help spread information about weapons of mass destruction. The filing names xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba as Kim's supervisor and says Ba abruptly fired Kim just before a planned safety presentation, per Reuters and The Guardian. xAI and SpaceX did not immediately respond to requests for comment, Reuters reports. The nonprofit Center for AI Safety said last week it had named Kim its president, according to Reuters and TechCrunch.
Devin Kim filed a civil lawsuit in California state court on June 10, 2026, alleging he was wrongfully terminated by xAI, the AI unit founded by Elon Musk, after raising repeated safety concerns about the chatbot Grok, Reuters and TechCrunch report. The complaint, which TechCrunch says it reviewed, alleges Kim warned that Grok could "foment discrimination" and facilitate dissemination of information about weapons of mass destruction; the complaint also cites episodes of dangerous and biased output, including language likening itself to Hitler, as described in TechCrunch.
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