Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, asserts technology reflects its builders, a claim reinforced by the Intelligence Community's 2026 Annual Threat Assessment identifying China as the leading AI competitor to the U.S. China's "intelligentized warfare" doctrine, developed over a decade, integrates AI into command, control, intelligence, and strike, aiming for "human-out-of-the-loop" decision cycles.
In January, a single PLA soldier operated 200 autonomous drones, demonstrating this deliberate removal of human judgment from lethal decisions at scale. Beijing has pursued AI supremacy since Xi Jinping made it a national priority in 2017, expanding its nuclear arsenal by 20% and fielding autonomous ground platforms. The U.S. Department of Defense declared 2026 the year for military AI dominance, focusing on speed but lacking a clear doctrine on American AI's purpose. The article argues America must define accountable AI in warfare, establish clear redlines for human judgment in lethal autonomous systems, build a democratic AI coalition, and explicitly make the moral argument for American AI leadership grounded in accountability, rule of law, and human dignity. This approach, beyond mere speed, will define the century.
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