{"id":42864,"date":"2026-05-29T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/29\/vance-advises-air-force-academy-graduates-to-not-concede-decision-making-to-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:05:37","slug":"vance-advises-air-force-academy-graduates-to-not-concede-decision-making-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2026\/05\/29\/vance-advises-air-force-academy-graduates-to-not-concede-decision-making-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance advises Air Force Academy graduates to not concede decision making to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vice President JD Vance cautioned U.S. Air Force Academy graduates to not allow artificial intelligence<\/a> to take over their autonomy in warfare decision making<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the academy\u2019s Thursday graduation ceremony<\/a> in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Vance urged cadets to dictate their own decisions and not \u201csubmit\u201d to AI as the technology continues to change warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs AI transforms the battlefield in some ways positively, in some ways not, I ask that you be jealous and selfish about your role as the decision maker in warfare,\u201d Vance said in a commencement address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are the masters of warfare. And both your minds, but also your hearts, are the opposite of artificial,\u201d Vance continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance discussed the recent commencement addresses given by corporate leaders around the country that have gone viral online after graduates have booed them once they spoke about the benefits of AI, calling Americans\u2019 worries over the technology\u2019s impact on the labor market, resources and social effects understandable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vice president also referenced the recently released Pope Leo XIV\u2019s Encyclical Letter<\/a> that explains how society must \u201cdisarm\u201d AI, saying it needs to be prevented from \u201cdominating humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance said he endorsed the sentiment that human beings can not outsource the \u201cmost important moral decisions to digital technology.\u201d He said that what makes American warfighters unique is how the country wages war \u201cjustly,\u201d saying that it is the service members who guarantee lethality coexists with heart and conscience in war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf 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,\u201d Vance said in the address.<\/p>\n\n\n\t