Elon Musk: Grok 3.5 Uses the Tools of Physics to Get to the Truth with Minimal Error

Elon Musk: Grok 3.5 uses the tools of physics to get to the truth with minimal error.

“Grok, especially Grok 3.5, is trying to reason from first principles, so apply the tools of physics to thinking. If you're trying to get to fundamental truths, you boil things down to the axiomatic elements that are most likely to be correct, and then you reason up from there, and you can test your conclusions against those axiomatic elements.

In physics, if you violate conservation of energy or momentum, then you're either going to get a Nobel Prize or you're wrong. And you're almost certainly wrong.

That's really the focus of Grok 3.5: finding the fundamentals of physics and applying physics tools across all lines of reasoning and to aspire to truth with minimal error.

There's always going to be some mistakes that are made, but we aim to get to the truth with acknowledged error, but minimize that error over time. And I think that's actually extremely important for AI safety.

I've thought a lot for a long time about AI safety, and my ultimate conclusion is the old maxim that honesty is the best policy. It really is for safety.”

Conversation with Satya Nadella, May 19, 2025