Sohrab Ahmari observes that “openness to AI’s positive possibilities is deeply congruent with biblical faith” and resonant with the post–Vatican II Church’s “mature reflection on technological modernity.” Pope Leo XIV, he notes, has lauded AI’s potential to open “new horizons” that enhance “research in health care and scientific discovery.”
The pope is right. For instance, AI recently helped a young man discover a novel cure for a hard-to-diagnose disease that nearly killed him and, according to The Pennsylvania Gazette, he is now using “AI tools to identify possible matches between the world’s 18,500 or so recognized diseases—less than a quarter of which have FDA-approved treatments—and some 4,000 drugs.” Likewise, AI is powering promising pediatric cancer research that mines, standardizes, and shares data on every child diagnosed with cancer in the United States.
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