{"id":331695,"date":"2026-10-03T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331695"},"modified":"2026-10-03T05:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:31:04","slug":"its-official-the-president-of-the-united-states-consults-ai-before-making-major-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331695","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: The President of the United States consults AI before making major decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter Oct 2, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

My worst suspicions have now been confirmed. TIME <\/em>and several other news organizations are reporting today that Trump consulted the AI chatbot Grok before making the decision to invade Venezuela and kidnap its president in January.<\/p>\n

Given Trump\u2019s outsized support for all things AI, including the construction of thousands of AI data-collection centers and his recent rebranding of artificial intelligence as \u201csuper intelligence,\u201d we now know for a fact that he has a personal relationship with this technology and is at least partially dependent upon it for performing the duties of his office.<\/p>\n

The AI watchdog organization OECD.ai reports <\/a><\/strong>as follows:<\/p>\n

In December 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump consulted Grok, an AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk\u2019s company, about Venezuelan public reaction to the potential capture of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The AI\u2019s analysis influenced the decision-making process preceding a U.S. military operation that led to Maduro\u2019s capture, causing significant political disruption in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

The AI system (Grok) was explicitly used in the decision-making process preceding a military operation that resulted in the capture of a head of state and political upheaval. This operation caused direct harm and disruption, and the AI\u2019s analysis was a contributing factor in the decision. Hence, the event meets the criteria for an AI Incident as the AI system\u2019s use directly or indirectly led to harm and disruption.<\/p>\n

Who knows if Grok might even have a system tailored specifically for Donald Trump and his personality type.<\/p>\n

AI chatbots are well known to have a tendency to tell the person consulting them what they want to hear. AI experts have openly acknowledged this as a problem and even have a name for it. They call it \u201cAI sycophancy.\u201d Back in May, I posted an article<\/a><\/strong> on a Stanford University study verifying the dangers of AI sycophancy.<\/p>\n

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In other words, AI can be a narcissist\u2019s best friend. No need to consult with human advisers who might disagree or offer advice that cuts through the narcissist\u2019s strongly held biases. This is a recipe for disaster, and you can bet this story of Trump\u2019s growing addiction to AI to perform his duties as president will fly under the radar with little press coverage. The coverage it does receive will not dive into all of the negative ramifications of having a president who relies on AI to make his decisions.<\/p>\n

In a way, this is no different than the previous president, who reportedly relied on others to run his presidency and didn\u2019t engage a mind of his own. When it came to foreign policy, Biden handed his brain over to Jake Sullivan. Donald Trump has turned his over to AI. I\u2019m not sure which is worse, but both are examples of a president who is not really in charge of anything.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s to stop Grok, owned by arch technocrat Elon Musk, to create and train an AI designed to nudge Trump in the direction of technocracy. Musk is a champion of technocracy and is the maternal grandson of one of technocracy\u2019s founding fathers, the Canadian Joshua Haldeman<\/a><\/strong>. Musk now has a potential stooge as president who is consulting his AI chatbot for a sort of divine guidance. Oh, think of the possibilities for creating a truly Manchurian Candidate<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Below is an excerpt from an article<\/a><\/strong> in the tech journal Techlicious<\/em> regarding Trump\u2019s use of AI:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an unusual example of a president consulting a consumer AI chatbot about a consequential foreign policy question. And while there\u2019s no evidence that Grok directly influenced the military operation, the account raises important questions about the growing role of artificial intelligence in government decision-making.<\/p>\n

According to TIME<\/em>, Trump met privately with Musk in the Oval Office in December 2025. During the meeting, he spent hours asking Grok questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official who was present, including the one about how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of Maduro. When the U.S. military captured Maduro on January 3, and celebrations followed, Trump reportedly came away impressed by Grok\u2019s apparent accuracy.<\/p>\n

But an AI chatbot getting a prediction right doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s a reliable source of information for decisions with potentially far-reaching consequences.<\/p>\n

Generative AI systems are designed to produce responses based on patterns learned during training and information available to them. They can provide useful analysis and synthesize large amounts of information, but they can also generate inaccurate information, omit important context, and express unwarranted confidence in their conclusions. As OpenAI has acknowledged<\/a>, even sophisticated language models are susceptible to hallucinations, producing plausible answers that aren\u2019t supported by the facts.<\/p>\n

I think it would be naive to believe that if Trump consulted Grok before launching his invasion of Venezuela and got the answer he was looking for, that he wouldn\u2019t have also sought advice from Grok before attacking Iran. We will probably read about that story six months to a year from now.<\/p>\n

As noted by Futurism<\/em>, the Stanford study \u201cadds to a growing consensus about the dangers of chatbot sycophancy<\/a> as a design feature of the tech, as well as new research about the willingness of users to readily \u2014 and uncritically \u2014 trust AI outputs<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy default, AI advice does not tell people that they\u2019re wrong nor give them \u2018tough love,\u2019\u201d Myra Cheng, the study\u2019s lead author said in a statement. \u201cI worry that people will lose the skills to deal with difficult social situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

From a spiritual standpoint, isn\u2019t that exactly how Satan works, zeroing in on our weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and then telling us what we want to believe, rather than what is true?<\/p>\n

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