{"id":222668,"date":"2026-05-29T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/vance-invokes-pope-leo-on-ai-and-warfare-in-air-force-academy-graduation-address\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:32:01","slug":"vance-invokes-pope-leo-on-ai-and-warfare-in-air-force-academy-graduation-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/vance-invokes-pope-leo-on-ai-and-warfare-in-air-force-academy-graduation-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance invokes Pope Leo on AI and warfare in Air Force Academy graduation address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/us-world\/vance-invokes-pope-leo-on-ai-and-warfare-in-air-force-academy-graduation-address\">Vance invokes Pope Leo on AI and warfare in Air Force Academy graduation address<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/us-world\/vance-invokes-pope-leo-on-ai-and-warfare-in-air-force-academy-graduation-address\">https:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/us-world\/vance-invokes-pope-leo-on-ai-and-warfare-in-air-force-academy-graduation-address<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 10:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cathstan.org\">www.cathstan.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Vice President JD Vance gave a commencement address at the 2026 U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs.<\/li>\n<li>Vance expressed support for Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s concerns regarding the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in warfare, following the pontiff&#8217;s call for &#8220;the most rigorous ethical constraints&#8221; in his encyclical &#8220;Magnifica Humanitas.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>He noted the understandable fears surrounding AI, despite acknowledging its potential benefits.<\/li>\n<li>Vance emphasized the need for future Air Force members to ensure that warfare is conducted justly, reiterating that moral decision-making in war must remain in human hands rather than automated systems.<\/li>\n<li>He urged graduates to use AI technology effectively to enhance human capabilities but to resist surrendering full decision-making power to machines.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope&#8217;s encyclical criticized modern warfare due to the rise of autonomous weapons and the principle that armed force should only be used as a last resort, thus underscoring the Church&#8217;s long-standing just war theory as outdated.<\/li>\n<li>Vance mentioned that though he had not read the encyclical in entirety, the parts he had read were &#8220;very profound.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The commencement address aligns with the tradition of the U.S. president or vice president speaking at military academy graduations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance invokes Pope Leo on AI and warfare in Air Force Academy graduation address https:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/us-world\/vance-invokes-pope-leo-on-ai-and-warfare-in-air-force-academy-graduation-address&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/actions\/assets\/generate-transform?transformId=16601","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}