Egregoric Caesar

What happens when an anti-authoritarian generation longs for strongman rule?

This week at UnHerd I reported on the launch of Grok, a new AI developed by Elon Musk that will draw its “intelligence” from the hive mind that is X. It is very new and experimental, of course. But the potential significance of this development cannot be overstated.

Up to now, AI instances such as Chat-GPT have been trained on static datasets, meaning t…