August meeting attendees discovered why in the previous month something had gone catastrophically wrong with one of the world's most advanced AI systems.

The 'Grok Meltdown' appeared to result from engineers enabling AI to source content from X (formerly Twitter) which had a significant amount of similar controversial posts—which AI duly churned out as factual from its search, so disseminating rather dubious material even further afield.

Also, in a What would you like to do now session, Peter Cooper answered group members’ requests live while demonstrating the use of different AI services — without prior warning. He needed to lie down afterwards.