Surgeons removed the lower lobe of the 71-year-old pontiff's right lung in Rome after tests confirmed adenocarcinoma.
The 71-year-old pontiff said the early-stage growth was caught during routine tests and expects to spend a week recovering.
Co-founder Christopher Olah lobbied papal advisers to reconsider their total dismissal of machine consciousness.
The pontiff argues there is an "ontological difference" between human creation and machine calculations.
