Trump wants an AI Force like Space Force, but that could make AI’s risks harder to manage

An AI Force would likely push China to create its own. That arms race could turn a technology already slipping out of human control into a weapon.

By: Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: September 28, 2026

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Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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By Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College

Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them.

This followed several calls from within the industry itself: Earlier in September, an Anthropic researcher put the odds that AI kills all humans within the next decade …

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