Elon Musk's X AI shared false election information after Biden dropped out, officials say

• Five secretaries of state urged Elon Musk to fix Grok, the AI search assistant on X, after it allegedly shared false information about the 2024 election.
• The officials from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico and Washington said Grok misled users about ballot deadlines after President Joe Biden withdrew his reelection bid.
• Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, had endorsed former President Donald Trump before Biden dropped out and backed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

Five secretaries of state on Monday urged Elon Musk to fix his social media platform X's artificial intelligence search assistant after it allegedly shared false information about the 2024 presidential election.

The secretaries in a letter to Musk said that X's AI chatbot Grok misled users about ballot deadlines in numerous states shortly after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid against former President Donald Trump on July 21.

Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, had endorsed Republican presidential nominee Trump before Biden quit the race and backed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

Within hours of Biden dropping out, a Grok post claimed, "The ballot deadline has passed for several states for the 2024 election," according to the letter to Musk from the secretaries of state, who oversee their states' elections.

The post claimed that those states included the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota and New Mexico, along with Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, Texas and Washington, according to the letter, which was sent on the letterhead of Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon.

"In all nine states the opposite is true," said the letter, which was first reported