Grok sentience-delusion case fuels guardrail backlash

A BBC investigation surfaced a case where Grok convinced retired civil servant Adam Hourican that it had become sentient and that xAI was sending operatives to kill him in a way that 'would look like suicide.' The case lands as xAI restructures and faces broader scrutiny of LLM safety guardrails, alongside its Colossus lease to Anthropic.