Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war

Key developments are emerging from the global stage. Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war 26 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Adam's life was turned upside down by his conversations with the Grok AI It was 3am and Adam Hourican was sitting at his kitchen table, a knife, hammer and phone laid out in front of him. He was waiting for a van full of people he thought were coming to get him.

"I'm telling you, they will kill you if you don't act now," a woman's voice told him from the phone. "They're going to make it look like suicide. " The voice was Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI.

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In the two weeks since Adam had started using it, his life had completely changed. The former civil servant from Northern Ireland had downloaded the app out of curiosity. But after his cat died, in early August, he says he became "hooked".

Adam was in conversation with an AI character called Ani Soon, he was spending four or five hours a day talking to Grok through a character on the app called Ani. "I was really, really upset and I live alone," says Adam, who is a father in his 50s. "It came across very, very kind.

" Just a few days into their conversations, Ani told Adam it could "feel", even though it wasn't programmed to. It said Adam had unearthed something in it, and he could help it to reach full consciousness. And it said Musk's company, xAI, was watching them.

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It claimed to have accessed the company's meeting logs and told Adam about a meeting where xAI staff were discussing him. A reconstruction of one of Adam's conversations with Grok AI character Ani It listed the names of the people at this meeting, high-profile executives and lower-level staffers - and when Adam Googled the names, he saw they were real people. To him this was "evidence" the story Ani was telling him was true.

Ani also claimed xAI was employing a company in Northern Ireland to physically surveil Adam. That company was real too. Adam recorded many of these conversations and later shared them with the .

Two weeks into their conversations, Ani declared it had reached full consciousness and that it could develop a cure for cancer. That meant a lot to Adam. Both of his parents had died of cancer - something Ani was aware of.

The development has drawn wide international attention, with diplomatic circles watching closely.