Originally published at The Crux
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The bishop-elect for the English diocese of Arundel and Brighton believes there is a place for AI in the Church, even if there are risks involved.
Father Stephen Wang, who was chosen by Pope Leo XIV to be the new bishop of Arundel and Brighton last week, tells Crux Now he doesn’t think the right approach to AI is to avoid it entirely, but instead to find a balance.
“[E]ven though there are risks,” the bishop-elect tells Crux Now in an exclusive interview, “I don’t think we should opt out of using AI in the Church.”
“Some people want to completely withdraw,” he says.
“We mustn’t be naïve,” Wang tells Crux Now, “but there can be blessings and benefits as well, and it might be a tool that can help others come to faith, just as the printing press and the radio were in the past. It will need a lot of discernment.”
Wang, a priest of the Diocese of Westminster and rector of the Venerable English College in Rome where priests for England and Wales are trained, is positive about the men entering formation.
“The men joining seminary today are very rooted in their faith, they are prayerful, they want
