Vice President JD Vance told graduates of the Air Force Academy they must “never submit” to artificial intelligence while making life-and-death decisions — and that decisions on killing “must be made by humans.”
“The thing I worry about the most with AI is how it will change warfare,” Vance said in his address Thursday to the graduates.
“Pope Leo XIV, in a recent document, encouraged us as human beings not to outsource the most important world decisions to digital technology, and I want to endorse that sentiment,” Vance said at the academy’s commencement ceremony.
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“AI will inevitably change warfare … It already has. But one of the things that make Americans unique … is we wage war justly,” the Marine Corps veteran said.
“If the warfare of the future is to live up to the moral values of our ancestors, decisions over life and death must be made by humans and not machines,” Vance added.
“I ask that you be jealous and selfish about your role as a decision maker in warfare. Use technology to make you better, but never submit to it … Your minds but also your hearts are the opposite of artificial.”
