AI is upending every aspect of human life.
The downsides are becoming more apparent.
And now J.D. Vance admitted this AI nightmare scares the hell out of him.
A recent Gallup poll found 7 in 10 Americans oppose building AI data centers in their neighborhood.
An NBC News survey showed 57 percent of Americans believe the risks of AI outweigh the benefits.
Graduating classes are booing commencement speakers who deliver addresses about walking into a world that AI will shape.
In the past two weeks, commencement speakers including former Google CEO Eric Smidt were booed when they talked about AI in glowing terms. You can't tout AI, a prolific job-killing juggernaut, to thousands of young people whose future is bleak due to it. pic.twitter.com/qLED7mb3gK
— Logical VAR (@mwonga_patrick) May 29, 2026
Vice President J.D. Vance addressed his own fears about AI in a commencement address at the Air Force Academy.
Vance drew laughs from the crowd when he acknowledged past commencement speakers getting booed for bringing up AI, but quipped that the cadets couldn’t boo him since he was the Vice President.
The Vice President then went on to say he agreed with Pope Leo, who recently issued a document urging world leaders not to outsource control over military decisions to AI.
“The thing I worry about most with AI is how we change warfare,” Vance stated. “Now Pope Leo XIV in a recent document encouraged us as human beings not to outsource the most important moral decisions to digital technology, and I want to endorse that sentiment and make it more specific to every one of you.”
Vance argued that Americans entrusted the graduating classes of the service academies to lead the U.S. military because they were just a moral people.
“It is an incredible burden to put on your shoulders,” Vance added. “But it is one that we entrust you with full confidence. And if 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.”
The prospect of AI controlling battlefield decisions like Skynet in the Terminator film franchise frightens many Americans, and the Vice President acknowledged that fear was justified, which is why he implored the graduating cadets to embrace their role as the decision-makers on the battlefield.
“So as AI transforms the battlefield, in some ways positively and in some ways not, I ask that you be jealous and selfish about your role as the decision-maker in warfare,” Vance concluded. “Use technology to make it 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.”
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