Podcast host Joe Rogan said Tuesday he hopes artificial intelligence will eventually take over government functions, including foreign policy and decisions about military conflict, arguing the technology could succeed where human leaders have failed to prevent wars.
Rogan made the comments during a conversation with theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” He acknowledged the idea might unsettle people but said it could be a way to remove human judgment from international conflicts.
“It sounds like a crazy hope, but my hope is that as AI becomes more and more omnipresent, as we start farming off various tasks to it, one of the things that we’re going to farm off is government,” Rogan said. “One of the things we’re going to farm off is how we interact with other countries. I know that’s terrifying to people, but just think of the disastrous effects that we’ve had so far with humans doing it.”
Rogan went further, imagining a world where AI takes control of military decisions entirely. “If all international military conflicts ended instantaneously upon AI governing the use of conflicts and military weapons… imagine that. Imagine a war where it stops. All war stops on the planet. That is one of the things that everybody wants, but no one thinks could ever possibly happen,” he said.
The remarks drew a sharp rebuttal from Amy Kremer, the Republican National Committee’s national committeewoman for Georgia and chairwoman of Humans First. Kremer has called for stronger safeguards around AI development but has opposed a blanket halt to the technology.
“Hell no. Joe Rogan is way off base,” Kremer said in a Wednesday statement to Fox News Digital. “AI is a tool, not a governing authority. These are machines. They have no soul, no conscience, no moral judgment and no accountability to the American people.”
Kremer said AI could still play a supporting role in policymaking. “AI can certainly assist human beings by analyzing information and helping policymakers make better-informed decisions. But there is a profound difference between using AI as a tool and surrendering human decision-making to it,” she said.
On the specific question of military force, Kremer argued human accountability cannot be replaced. “Decisions about war and peace, foreign policy, our constitutional rights and the exercise of government power must always remain in human hands,” she said. “If a decision can take a life, take away someone’s liberty, or fundamentally affect the American people, a human being must make that decision and be accountable for it.”
Part of a broader national debate
The disagreement comes as the country grapples with how much authority to hand over to increasingly capable AI systems. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called last Saturday for slowing development of frontier AI, a position that drew support from Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman has separately warned that humanity losing control over the future of AI would be “unacceptable.”
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has been pushing to speed up adoption of AI within the military and intelligence community while insisting authority stay within the existing chain of command. A White House national security memorandum issued in June requires that national-security AI systems remain controllable and that commanders, agency directors and other officials be held accountable for how the systems are used.
Kremer summed up her objection to Rogan’s vision plainly: “Technology should serve humanity. Humanity should never serve the machines.”
