Pope Francis has blessed the much feared Artificial Intelligence (AI) Says it is necessary to “criminalize the crime, not the tool.” Francis has even launched Vatican awards for the best doctoral theses on AI. According to Francis, AI worries the traditional Church about the dogmas, anathemas and excommunications of the past, is only “a reflection of human dignity and our ability to create” The Pope is the first pontiff to look, with serenity and even hope, at the new and revolutionary discoveries of science that the Church, for centuries, feared.