🚨 USAF Combat Veteran Rob Cunningham to Trump: Here’s How America Wins the AI War

USAF combat veteran, entrepreneur and technology investor Rob Cunningham returns to Michael Jaco with a direct message for President Donald Trump: America can win the AI race—but first, we have to make sure the machines can never take authority they were never given.

Cunningham, a former Air Force pilot who flew combat missions during Desert Storm, has publicly offered to serve in an unpaid advisory capacity in support of President Trump’s goal of making America the world leader in artificial intelligence.

And he says he isn't coming empty-handed.

Rob lays out a patented information-physics protocol that he says could fundamentally change how America approaches AI security by separating the enormous computational capabilities of AI and quantum systems from the authority to make sovereign decisions.

His principle is simple:

Govern the machine. Never allow the machine to govern us.

Rob warns that without a new approach, America could enter a perpetual AI-versus-AI arms race requiring ever-larger data centers, enormous amounts of energy, escalating cybersecurity infrastructure and increasingly sophisticated autonomous agents trying to defeat one another.

The stakes extend far beyond ChatGPT or consumer technology.

Michael and Rob discuss the potential impact of autonomous AI across defense, intelligence, banking, cryptocurrency, energy, communications, supply chains, air traffic control, critical infrastructure, robotics and national security.

Rob argues that America should establish the rules of engagement underneath AI itself—creating a sovereignty layer where computational power can continue advancing while unauthorized agency remains off limits.

And he's challenging the government to test it.

Rob says NIST, DARPA, the FBI, MIT, Caltech or America's highest-level national security teams should independently validate the technology, red-team it and determine whether his claims stand up.