SpaceX employees will provide data for Grok's next training run, Musk told staff in an all-hands. The plan mirrors Meta's paused employee data collection effort.
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Elon Musk told SpaceX employees the company will train its Grok AI on the sum total of all SpaceX information, including contributions from staff. "So in a way, it will be trained on you," Musk said during an all-hands meeting Tuesday, according to a video posted on X.
"We're going to be training Grok on the sum total of all SpaceX information," Musk said. "You will effectively be the parents of the AI. It will inherit your thoughts and ideas and beliefs, and I think that's a good thing."
Musk described SpaceX employees as "a collection of some of the very best humans on Earth." Training on their data could imbue future models with what he considers desirable values, he suggested. The world's richest man reiterated long-standing concerns about superintelligent AI that is not aligned with humanity's goals.
It is not clear what employee data SpaceX plans to use or how it will be collected. The company did not respond to a request for comment, Business Insider reported.
AI companies have turned to employee data after exhausting most publicly available internet content. Meta launched a similar initiative in April to collect employee keystrokes and mouse movements as training data. The plan sparked intense backlash from staff and was paused in June after private employee conversations and performance data were made available across the entire company, Business Insider exclusively reported.
SpaceX absorbed Musk's AI startup xAI months before the company went public in a record-breaking IPO. The rocket maker is trying to catch up in the AI race. Grok has trailed behind models from OpenAI and Anthropic on some major benchmarks.
SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor is expected to close in the coming months. On Tuesday, the company launched Grok Bot, an AI agent designed to perform tasks on a computer. The company says Grok Bots can sign into apps and websites, draft emails, write code, and perform a wide range of other tasks autonomously. Training AI models for such agentic work often requires specially curated computer-use data.
Musk encouraged all SpaceX employees to use the company's AI and "make it better." He said that dominating AI on Earth and in space would lead to soaring profits, a golden age of civilization, and holidays on the moon for employees. "Anyone at SpaceX who wants to go to the moon or Mars will be able to go in the future. You have my word," Musk said.
The use of employee data for AI training raises questions about privacy and liability, similar to those explored in AI Rogue Agents: Who Bears Liability for Breaches.
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