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Vance Echoes Pope Leo’s Message on AI in AF Commencement Address

Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a speech about morality in advanced war technology to the 931 candidates at the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement May 28, but he cloaked it with humor, including a quip about the weather, a reference to being a former Marine surrounded by members of the Air Force, and a chest bump with a newly graduated officer.

While Vance urged the candidates for graduation not to avoid new technologies, he also echoed Pope Leo’s concerns about maintaining moral clarity when utilizing the power of artificial intelligence, warning that AI will affect warfare.

“Members of the class of 2026, you’re graduating into one of those eras where that reality, that unpredictability of warfare is becoming impossible to ignore,” Vance said. “Now your nation, your vice president and the president of the United States, who sends his very best, we ask you to apply that same adaptability, that same innovation that you learned at this academy, to an entirely new era of warfare, one shaped by autonomous systems, AI, and cyber operations.”

.@JDVance Gives Graduating Air Force Cadet a Chest Bump pic.twitter.com/eOomI03bXh— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 29, 2026

.@JDVance Gives Graduating Air Force Cadet a Chest Bump........

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