Elon Musk on Wednesday unveiled Grok 4, a new version of his X platform's AI chatbot. The update comes a day after the bot posted antisemitic content on the social media network. Musk introduced the new model in a livestream on X late Wednesday, calling Grok 4 "the smartest AI in the world."

But for the Jews, the stakes are a little bit higher. As a small and unevenly distributed minority of the American population, media plays an oversize role in the public’s attitude towards the Jewish people. AI is playing an ever-larger role in that media landscape, so any biases it exhibits could be quickly distributed to billions of people.