Technology Is Never Neutral

"Technology is neutral; it all depends on how you use it." The line sounds fair, but it is really a way of dodging responsibility. An algorithm is not neutral when it decides what you see; a model's defaults are not neutral when they mute faith; addiction mechanics are least neutral of all when they are written into a product. In May 2026, the Pope's AI encyclical stated this as a general principle: technology carries the fingerprints of those who make it, feed it, govern it, and use it. This page gathers the whole line, from writing about algorithmic judgment in 2018 to reading the encyclical in 2026. The question was never whether a tool is good or evil. It is who pressed their fingerprints in, and in which direction.