Vice President JD Vance has a favorite AI, and it's not shy about being different. In a recent Fox News interview, Vance made it clear he's team Grok, the AI system developed by Elon Musk's xAI company.
"I'm a Grok guy," Vance said plainly. His reasoning? He believes Grok delivers what he considers objective responses instead of what he terms "woke answers."
"I think it's the best. It's also the least woke!" Vance explained. "I'm always asking myself, if I ask an AI a question, is it going to give me an objective answer, or is it going to give me a woke answer?"
For Vance, Grok apparently passes that test with flying colors. His comments touch on a bigger debate about how AI systems should handle politically sensitive questions and whether current models inject too much ideological bias into their responses.
Things got interesting when the conversation turned to Grok's "Unhinged" mode, a feature that delivers uncensored, personality-driven responses. When asked if he'd experimented with this more extreme version, Vance laughed it off. "I have not. I don't want the media to attack me," he said.
That "Unhinged" mode, which xAI rolled out for Grok 3 in 2025, is available exclusively to premium users. It's designed to provide responses without the typical guardrails most AI companies install.
Musk clearly enjoyed the endorsement. He shared the interview clip on social media with a simple caption: "Grok rocks!"
The Vice President's public backing of Grok highlights how AI tools are increasingly entering mainstream political discourse. Whether you see Vance's comments as a legitimate critique of AI bias or just political signaling, one thing's certain: the conversation about objectivity in artificial intelligence isn't going away anytime soon.
