The Pope’s address to the G7 summit in Italy on the subject of Artificial Intelligence was a necessary and thoughtful contribution to the implications of a technology that is transforming the very idea of what it is to be human. If only the same could be said of his private meeting with the US president, Joe Biden. The image of the meeting on Friday, with the president touching foreheads with the Pope in what looked like an affectionate embrace, has had a global resonance. What is Pope Francis thinking of?