xAI Tells Colorado to Stay Out of Grok's 'Maximally Truth-Seeking' Business

Elon Musk's AI venture xAI has dropped a lawsuit on Colorado's doorstep, trying to gut incoming AI regulations that the company insists are cramping Grok's style. The chatbot apparently wants to speak its mind freely, and apparently Colorado's lawmakers didn't get the memo.

The beef is with Colorado's Senate Bill 24-205, which targets "algorithmic discrimination" in employment, housing, and finance. In a filing to a U.S. district court in Colorado on Thursday, xAI argued that "Colorado cannot alter xAI's message simply because it wants to amplify its own views on the highly politicized subjects of fairness and equity." Basically, don't tell our robot how to think.

The company claims the law, set to kick in on June 30, is full of contradictions since it promotes "differential treatment" in an effort to "increase diversity or redress historical discrimination." Forcing xAI to tweak Grok would apparently sabotage its noble mission of being "maximally truth seeking," the filing stated. Nothing says truth-seeking like a lawsuit in federal court.

This isn't xAI's first tangle with state AI regulations. Back in December, it sued California over its Generative AI Training Data Transparency Act, arguing disclosure requirements compel speech and reveal trade secrets in violation of the First and Fifth Amendments. Turns out Grok has a pattern of getting into regulatory trouble wherever it goes.

The Colorado and California laws rolled out after Grok got caught making racist, sexist, and antisemitic comments. Who knew a maximally truth-seeking AI would be such a degen?

White House AI czar David Sacks has been pushing for federal AI rules instead of a chaotic state-by-state mess. "The problem that we're seeing right now is that you've got 50 different states regulating this in 50 different ways, and it's creating a patchwork of regulation that's difficult for innovators to comply with," Sacks said in late March. Apparently,, nobody told him crypto founders love regulatory arbitrage.