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Vice President JD Vance at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday in Colorado Springs. (Matt Rourke\/Pool\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Vice President JD Vance said he is concerned about how artificial intelligence will be used in warfare and urged the military on Thursday to be cautious about the technology, remarks he made as the Pentagon moves forward with using AI on the battlefield.<\/p>

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Speaking to graduating cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the vice president \u2014 who served in the Iraq War during his time in the Marines \u2014 acknowledged the growing unease among Americans as AI stands to \u201caffect the labor market\u201d and has \u201cfundamentally changed how we interact with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the thing I worry about most with AI is how it will change warfare,\u201d Vance said, adding that it \u201calready has.\u201d<\/p>\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 he said.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon has moved quickly to integrate AI into its war-fighting, even as it faces questions about how to impose appropriate safeguards on the still-new technology.<\/p>\n

The vice president, a Catholic who has previously been bullish about the adoption of AI, used the Air Force Academy speech to \u201cendorse\u201d a sentiment expressed by Pope Leo XIV in his encyclical on AI released this week<\/a>, even as some other Trump administration officials have dismissed Leo\u2019s new guidance.<\/p>\n

Vance praised the pope\u2019s instruction \u201cnot to outsource the most important moral decisions to digital technology,\u201d saying he wanted the cadets to take it to heart as it applies to decisions made in war.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo as AI transforms the battlefield \u2014 in some ways positively, in some ways not \u2014 I ask that you be jealous and selfish about your role as a decision-maker in warfare,\u201d he said. \u201cUse technology to make you better, but never submit to it. You are the masters of warfare, and both your minds but also your hearts are the opposite of artificial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s broad message about the importance of human judgment comes as the Trump administration struggles to articulate more practical guidelines for the use of AI in the United States. Last week, President Donald Trump decided at the last minute not to sign<\/a> a long-awaited executive order on AI after several tech executives urged him to hold off, concerned it would restrict the technology\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

Other administration officials have brushed off warnings about embracing AI too quickly and without proper evaluation. In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military was in \u201ca race\u201d to develop AI-enabled warfare.<\/p>

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\u201cWe must accept that the risks of not moving fast enough outweigh the risks of imperfect alignment,\u201d Hegseth wrote in a January memo directing broad new implementation of AI development and integration across the military. \u201cSpeed wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

When faced with the indirect criticism from Leo in recent months about the administration\u2019s involvement in the Iran war, particularly that it did not meet the standards of a \u201cjust war,\u201d Hegseth downplayed the significance of the pope\u2019s opinion on military matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pope\u2019s going to do his thing, that\u2019s fine,\u201d Hegseth told reporters last month. \u201cWe know what our mission is, we know what authority we have. We\u2019re very clear about that, we follow that, the orders of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pentagon is still under scrutiny for a military strike on a school in Iran<\/a> in the first hours of the war. It killed at least 175 people, many of them schoolgirls, according to Iranian officials. The school was hit as the U.S. struck a blistering 1,000 targets in those first 24 hours, enabled in part by the most advanced AI the Pentagon has ever used in warfare, the Maven Smart System.<\/p>\n

That system used the AI tool Claude to suggest hundreds of targets, issue location coordinates and prioritize targets according to importance.<\/p>\n

While the investigation into the Iranian school strike is ongoing, officials who have previously spoken to The Washington Post said it is likely the system was fed erroneous targeting information. The school, which is adjacent to an Iranian military site, had been cleared as a legitimate target and had been identified as a weapons factory or storage building.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon had previously used the Claude-enabled Maven system in January during its raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. In response, the company that makes Claude, Anthropic, raised questions as to how the Pentagon was using its AI tool, given the firm\u2019s stated ethical restrictions.<\/p>\n

The debate boiled over and resulted in Trump banning Anthropic from future government contracts, while Hegseth claimed Anthropic was a supply chain risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The matter is still in litigation, and meanwhile, the U.S. military used Anthropic technology as it went into Iran.<\/p>

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Dan Lamothe contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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