A chatbot developed by Elon Musk is designed to behave like a “crazy conspiracy theorist” that believes a “secret global cabal” controls humanity. The billionaire’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot – known as Grok – is programmed to include a digital “persona” that is “deep in YouTube conspiracy video rabbit holes” and it will discuss “wild conspiracy theories about anything and everything”, new data show. According to AI researchers who have studied the chatbot, underlying instructions known as prompts dictate how Grok behaves in its conversations with users – with one pushing conspiracy views. The instructions – which have been reviewed...