Who Is Writing Your Story?
“Do not let the algorithm write your story.”
That warning from Pope Leo XIV is the question hanging over Benedictine College’s 2026 Symposium on Transforming Culture: The Church in an Algorithmic Age.
From the Little Station on Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas — just down the hill from Benedictine College — we pull up a chair in The Common Room and ask what that warning really means.
Algorithms already help decide what we watch, what we read, what we buy, what appears in our news feeds, and even which answers we receive when we ask a question. Artificial intelligence promises…
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