'WOKE NANNY AI SPYWARE': Elon Musk takes aim at Apple after plans to upgrade software

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Elon Musk is taking aim at Apple Inc. after the technology company announced the future integration of artificial intelligence into its software.

Musk, who is CEO of Tesla and owns social media site X, slammed the company for its plan to add “woke nanny AI spyware” to it devices in a series of posts on Monday.

“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies,” Musk wrote on X. “That is an unacceptable security violation.”

Musk, who also runs Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and AI startup xAI, with a chatbot named Grok, co-founded OpenAI but had a falling-out with the San Francisco-based startup.

“Visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,” he added, referring to a protective enclosure that prevents electromagnetic radiation from entering or exiting.

At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference presentation Monday near San Jose, Calif., the company said ChatGPT would be integrated into the company’s iPhone, iPad and Mac computers later in the year.

On Tuesday, Musk kept up his criticisms of Apple and the potential security risks posed by AI.

“The truth is that handing your data over to digital superintelligence (that Apple themselves cannot even build or understand) at the operating system level is insane,” he wrote.

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However, during the presentation, Apple said it is serious about customer data security and will help keep users’ information safe when it’s being sent to data centres.

“Privacy protections are built in when accessing ChatGPT within Siri,” Apple said in a statement. “Requests are not stored by OpenAI, and users’ IP addresses are obscured.”