Why xAI’s Grok Went Rogue
By Alexander Saeedy, Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2025
Will Stancil opened his phone on Tuesday and found that Grok, xAI’s chatbot, was providing millions of people on X with advice on how to break into his house and assault him.
The 39-year-old attorney has a sizable following on X, where he regularly posts about urban planning and politics. Stancil, a Democrat who ran for local office in Minnesota, isn’t a stranger to contentious arguments on social media with political opponents.
But on Tuesday, he found that the newest bully online was a robot: @Grok.
