Statement about Jess Asato legal action against xAI
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We stand with Jess Asato and her incredibly brave legal action against xAI to deliver justice for the non-consensual sexualised images Grok created of her and back her calls for better safety by design.
We hope that this will be a first step towards accountability for those responsible and that it will open a path to redress for the many, many other victims who have suffered.
Researchers found that in an 11-day period — from the start of December 29th 2025 to the end of January 8th 2026 — Grok generated an estimated 3 million nonconsensual sexualised images of women and children, which were widely disseminated on X, causing untold harm.
To date, there has been no justice for any of the victims. We believe that xAI must be held legally accountable to ensure that no AI tool or social media platform can ever repeat such awful harms against women, children, or anyone.
Signed by:
Adele Zeynep Walton
Hannah Stevens, CEO, Elect Her
Professor Olga Jurasz, Director, Centre for Protecting Women Online
Leanda Barrington-Leach, Executive Director, 5Rights Foundation
Helen Pankhurst CBE, Convener, Centenary Action
Chris Ashworth OBE, Founder, Click Zero
Penny East, Chief Executive, Fawcett Society
Tara Steele, Executive Director, Safe AI for Children Alliance
Jennifer Nadel, CEO, Compassion in Politics
Janaya Walker, Interim Director, End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW)
Paul Jones, CEO, FlippGen
Danny Stone MBE, Chief Executive, Antisemitism Policy Trust
David Parfett, Chair of Trustees, Thomas William Parfett Foundation
Professor Clare McGlynn, Durham University
Maeve Walsh, Director, Online Safety Act Network
Elena Michael, Director, #NotYourPorn
Mark Rowland, CEO, Mental Health Foundation
Andy Burrows, CEO, Molly Rose Foundation
Sanjay Bhandari, Chair, Kick It Out
Lyanne Nicholl, CEO, 50:50 Parliament
Professor Lisa Sugiura, Lead, Digital Gender Harms Research Unit, University of Portsmouth
Ciara Bergman, CEO, Rape Crisis England & Wales
Hera Hussain, CEO, Chayn
Naomi Miles, CEO, Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE)
Professor Bryony Hoskins, Chair of Comparative Social science, University of Roehampton
Emma Lingley-Clark, Interim CEO, Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Laura Kaun, Head of Public Affairs, Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)
Sara Kirkpatrick, CEO, Welsh Women’s Aid
Andrea Simon, London’s Victims’ Commissioner
Rose Caldwell, CEO, Plan International UK
Angie Airlie, CEO, Stay Safe East
Red Godfrey-Sagoo. CEO Rape Crisis South London
Estelle du Boulay, Director, Rights of Women
Ghadah Alnasseri, Executive Director, Imkaan
Professor Ann Kristin Glenster, LOGOS, University of Cambridge
Diana Nammi, IKWRO - Women’s Rights Organisation
Peter Bannister, LOGOS, University of Cambridge
Jo Todd, CEO, Respect
Gemma Sherrington, CEO, Refuge
Bernie Ryan, CEO, Institute for Addressing Strangulation (IFAS)
Shonagh Dillon, CEO Aurora New Dawn
Gemma Magee-Herd, CEO, SAHWR
Maureen Connolly, CEO, Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid
Deborah Denis, Chief Executive, Lucy Faithfull Foundation
Michelle Blunsom MBE, CEO, East Surrey Domestic Abuse Services (ESDAS)
Jo Choi, Interim CEO, Standing Together Against Domestic Service
Frank Mullane MBE, CEO, Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA)
Selma Taha, Executive Director, Southall Black Sisters (SBS)
Harriet Wistrich, CEO, Centre for Women’s Justice
Beverley Jones, CEO, Next Chapter
Gisela Valle, Director, Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS)
Amtal Rana, CEO, Kiran Support Services
Jill Caldwell, CEO, Paws for Kids/Endeavour
Sam Clifford, CEO, Jewish Women’s AId
Sarah Andrew, Legal and Campaign Director, Avaaz Foundation
Jill Cooper, CEO, Stroud Beresford Limited (Stroud Women’s Refuge)
Heather Smiles, Manager, Sutton Women’s Centre
Debi Coppel Refuge manager The First step (Knowsley)
Nicki Watts, Director, AI Youth
Medina Johnson, Chief Executive, IRISi
Susie McDonald, CEO, Tender Education & Arts
Sharon Brown, CEO, Northumberland Domestic Abuse Services (NDAS)
Elisabeth Sheppard, CEO, Gilgal Birmingham
Elizabeth Jiménez-Yáñez, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Hibiscus
Jo Gough, RISE (Sussex VAWG service)
Claire Lambon, CEO, Stop Domestic Abuse
Lynne Elliot, CEO, White Ribbon UK
Gaby Price, CEO, Women’s Aid Luton
Charlotte Almond, Staffordshire Women’s Aid
Katie Freeman-Tayler, Policy and Research Director, Internet Matters
Nina Humphries, Director, UK Feminista
Shigufta Khan, CEO The Wish Centre
Stephen Kinsella, Founder Clean Up the Internet
Natalie Collins, Own My Life
Jeffrey DeMarco, Senior Advisor Online Harms, Save the Children UK
Sarah Hill, CEO, IDAS
Sophie McGoff, CEO, Women’s Aid Leicestershire Ltd
Jacqui Kilburn, Head of Training, AAFDA
Rory Innes, Founder & CEO, The Cyber Helpline
Baroness Gabby Bertin, Lead Reviewer of the Independent Pornography Review
Kyla Kirkpatrick, Director, The Drive Partnership
Tracey Bleakley, Interim CEO, SafeLives
Sam Smethers, CEO, Surviving Economic Abuse
Constanze Sen, CEO, Women’s Aid Bromley and Croydon
Lawrence Jordan, CEO, Marie Collins Foundation
Angie Herrera, Director, Latin American Women’s Aid
Farah Nazeer, CEO, Women’s Aid Federation England
Soma Sara, CEO, Everyone’s Invited
Ruth Galwey, National President, BPW UK
Ross Hendry, CEO, CARE
Alice Piller-Roner, CEO, Woman’s Trust
Natasha Rattu, CEO, Karma Nirvana
Matteo Bergamini, MBE, Founder and CEO, Shout Out UK
Professor Gina Neff, Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, University of Cambridge
Daniel Guinness, Managing Director, Beyond Equality
Liz Mack, CEO, Advance
Sarah O’Leary, CEO, Next Link.
Kyle Taylor, Executive Director, Fair Vote UK
David Wright, CEO, SWGfL
Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees, Queen’s University Belfast
Ben Scott, CEO, Reset Tech
Vicki Shotbolt, CEO, Parent Zone
Henry Tuck, Senior Director, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Josephine Jengo-Cowell, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK
Dr Elena Sherstoboeva, Lecturer, Essex Law School, University of Essex
S. Mona Sinha, CEO, Equality Now
Vivienne Hayes OBE, CEO, Women's Resource Centre
Professor Miranda Horvath, Director of the Institute for Social Justice & Crime, University of Suffolk
Dr Leonie Tanczer, UCL Gender + Tech Lab
Ian Dean, Director, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
Aisha Ali-Khan, Chair, KAWACC
Melissa Green, CEO National Federation of Women’s Institutes
Patrick Ryan, CEO of Hestia
Laura Seebohm, CEO WWIN
Cath Pickles, CEO, Restitute
