Grok is Elon Musk's only ally in a hypothetical high-stakes AI race against Sam Altman

Six popular chatbots said they would pass over Elon Musk (left) in favor of Sam Altman (right) as the best person to lead AI's advancement.

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• Sam Altman asked Grok if he or Elon Musk should advance AI if the fate of humanity was at stake.
• We asked the same question to ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot, Gemini, Meta AI, and Perplexity.
• Altman went 6-1 over Musk.

If artificially intelligent chatbots were forced to decide between Elon Musk and Sam Altman to lead the AI arms race...