AI, Grok Tell A Misleading Summary Of JFK Files | Bobby Burack

On Tuesday, President Trump made available tens of thousands of files regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Due to the volume of files, artificial intelligence chatbots quickly summarized the documents for users of interest. 

Most notably, X's Grok provided the following conclusion from the release:

"In conclusion, based on the synthesized analysis of today’s release, the evidence points to Lee Harvey Oswald as the orchestrator and executor of Kennedy’s assassination, acting alone. No definitive proof of CIA, Mafia, or foreign involvement emerges to shift this view. However, the volume of data and lingering questions about agency failures or suppressed angles mean the debate won’t end here—further scrutiny by independent researchers could yet uncover cracks in the official story. For now, the files tilt toward closure, not revelation."

The summarization led journalists to mock the so-called conspiracy theorists who have long hinted at a larger conspiracy than Lee Harvey Oswald, as per Grok, acting as the "orchestrator and executor" of Kennedy’s assassination.

And therein lies the inherent flaw of relying on artificial intelligence as a source for journalism. 

As advanced as apps like Grok are, they lack the human capability of suspicion. The 60,000 pages released on Tuesday do not contain a smoking gun establishing the direct involvement of the CIA, Mafia, or a foreign nation. Of course, not. The files were never going to explicitly detail such. Otherwise, the release would never have occurred.

That said, several documents within the files suggest suspicious activity not accounted for in Grok's conclusion.

US President John F Kennedy (left), First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (in pink), and Texas Governor