In the closing portion of his commencement address at the United States Air Force Academy, Vice President JD Vance identified artificial intelligence's impact on warfare as his greatest concern.
He referenced a recent document from Pope Leo XIV that urged against outsourcing the most important moral decisions to digital technology, and applied it directly to the graduating class.
"AI will inevitably change warfare, and of course, as you've learned over the last four years, it already has."
Vance emphasized that one of the things that makes American warfighters unique is the requirement to wage war justly, while also ensuring that "our lethality in war, which is amazing and necessary, it also coexists with our heart and with our conscience."