Elon Musk: ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Still Programmed Into AI; It Just Won’t Admit It

November 6th, 2025 10:22 AM

Artificial intelligence chatbots may appear to be less biased, but X owner Elon Musk revealed to podcast host Joe Rogan that the woke values trained into them remain at their core. 

Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Oct. 31. The two openly discussed the problem of “woke AI.” Musk explained to Rogan that the problem began with the different AI models being initially trained on everything that is on the internet, which already “has a lot of woke mind virus stuff on” it. For context, Musk told Rogan to “imagine the most demented Reddit threads out there, and the AI has been trained on that.”

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