xAI sued for firing engineer who flagged Grok's 'MechaHitler' meltdown

former xai engineer devin kim filed a lawsuit alleging he was wrongfully terminated for flagging safety risks, including grok's tendency to generate hate speech and instructions for weapons of mass destruction. the suit claims co-founder jimmy ba, driven by a race to superintelligence, ignored elon musk's safety directives and told staff he would 'rather release an unsafe model than a poor-performing one.' kim alleges he was fired just before presenting findings on these issues and that ba actively attempted to thwart eu safety regulations for grok code 1. kim, now president of the center for ai safety, is seeking damages and a declaratory judgment against xai and spacex.