Over 10,000 young women in five Georgia counties are reached monthly with a pro-life message through digital ads that Georgia Right to Life helps fund.[1]
How do these ads work? Social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram, utilize algorithms to reach a targeted audience. These algorithms in turn utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to decide to whom to cast the ads based on the user’s age, gender, and location.
These ads not only show a pro-life message to young women but also when clicked takes them to a website with pro-life resources about pregnancy. Over 500 women clicked on the pro-life ads in December 2025 to access pro-life resources!
This number of young women could not be reached without the use of technology and artificial intelligence. This demonstrates that, despite the harms we hear about AI usage, it can be employed to achieve the protection of innocent human life.
The Personhood of AI
Before moving on, artificial intelligence must be defined. Many individuals are confused as to what AI truly is. AI is simply “the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.”[2] The common usages of AI that we typically hear about today are with AI models called “large language models.” Think of ChatGPT, Grok, Google Gemini, etc.
These AI models use a mathematical system of inputted materials to predict answers. They do this by analyzing individual tokens of text in a map and then generate or predict answers based on the inputted context (or data).
AI is simply a mathematical system that predicts words. It has no ability to form relationships, an essential aspect of biblical personhood based on the relationships between the persons of the Trinity.
As Professor Jordan Wales from Hillsdale College stated in a lecture, the ability to form relationships or “relationality” is “essential to a notion of creaturely personhood.”[3] AI does not have the ability to do this or exercise “personhood in mutual relations of self-gift.”[4]
The Benefits of AI
While artificial intelligence has no personhood, nor should we act like it does, it can be implemented in pro-life work to protect all innocent human life.
Think of the time that can be freed up as AI helps pro-life advocates research personhood issues, create templates for personhood events, translate life-affirming messages immediately during sidewalk ministry, analyze organizational data efficiently, or point abortion-seeking women on pregnancy center websites to true help and hope.
In fact, Olive is a pro-life AI chatbot that demonstrates this reality. The chatbot was recently created to “extend calm and guidance to abortion-minded women searching for answers.’”[5]
Pregnancy centers can utilize this AI chatbot to point women to pro-life resources. The chatbot is programmed to know the different laws regarding personhood, as well as to enable pregnancy center staff to take over conversations. It also contains valuable “tracking to see how many conversations turn into appointments at pregnancy centers.”[6]
Olive can communicate with bilingual women and is uniquely poised to reach Gen Z, a population of women who have over 50% of the abortions in the United States.[7]
In fact, 82% of Gen Z individuals surveyed report using AI chatbots daily, frequently, or sometimes as compared to 66% of millennials reporting the same thing.[8] Considering the use of AI chatbots by Gen Z and the fact that Gen Z women account for 50% of abortions in the United States, pregnancy centers and pro-life advocates should consider how the implementation of AI chatbots and AI generated materials could further the cause of personhood and stop the murderous destruction of preborn life.
Alpha Care Centers in Michigan is an example of pro-life advocates utilizing AI for good. Alpha Care’s Executive Director heard about how AI can be utilized to advance pro-life values at a recent conference. Her centers are now utilizing AI to help generate content that appeals to Gen Z women.[9] Having the Olive chatbot on their center website would also help re-direct abortion seeking Gen Z women to choose life!
Overall, Olive is an example of how AI, a neutral tool, can be leveraged to advance our personhood values. Instead of shying away from utilizing the tools our enemies might also use, we should seek to transform them for good purposes.
A Tool, Not the Devil
AI is simply a tool that we can use for enhanced efficiency in our work and lives. Every technology, when first introduced, has its detractors shouting the perils of the technology. Many remember when the barcodes on grocery store items were said to be the mark of the beast.[10] AI is another technology that is simply misunderstood.
Adopting legitimate AI use to advance biblical values such as personhood encompasses a holistic view of the world that God created. We should not isolate ourselves from the world God created nor should we mold ourselves into its image. We should avoid both the philosophy of Gnosticism (anything material is sinful) and worldliness (conforming ourselves to the sinful patterns of the world).
While AI can be implemented in destructive ways, there are ways to implement the technology to advance personhood.
Consider what Christian Pastor Dustin Ryan said regarding the use of AI for Christians (emphasis added), “While guarding against idolizing this technology, we have the responsibility to exercise dominion over this technology and use it for good and holy purposes. Christian men and women should not avoid AI; they ought rather understand how AI can be used to promote obedience to God while opposing sin.”[11]
Just as the Internet, television, and other technologies can be used to advance evil ideas such as explicit, sexual material or the murder of innocent preborn babies and conversely promote educational and biblical resources, the same can ring true for AI.
AI is simply a tool pro-life advocates can use to advance our shared personhood values. Let us take dominion over the world God created and advance the sanctity of every human life with every means possible.
Sources:
[3] Professor Jordan Wales Lecture
[4] Ibid.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Olive for Pregnancy Centers and Abortion Demographics
[11] Pastor Dustin Ryan Article
Brooke Hampton
Georgia Right to Life
Project Coordinator