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.
Vance applauded the concerns of American-born Pope Leo XIV, who released a formal clerical assessment this week cautioning about the rapid advance of AI.
“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,” said Vance, who is Catholic.
“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.
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