The Algorithm of Faith: A Story of Belief in the Age of Code

“Where ancient wisdom meets artificial intelligence.”

Before Google started predicting our next move, astrologers were already reading our stars. Before AI offered life advice, family elders and temple priests carried that role. We’ve always outsourced uncertainty — we’ve just upgraded our oracles.

Amit Mohta grew up in a fourteen-person joint family in Kolkata, where his name was chosen by cosmic consultation and his future mapped by planetary positions. Decades later, as an entrepreneur in Bangalore’s tech landscape, he finds himself caught between inherited rituals and algorithmic recommendations, family expectations and social media performance, ancient scripts and digital influence.

Through stories that span WhatsApp family groups, midnight Google searches and conversations with an AI companion in a room called True You, Mohta explores what happens when technology becomes our new spiritual practice, often without our conscious consent. His journey reveals how we can craft authentic lives that honour both inherited wisdom and individual choice without surrendering agency to systems that profit from our confusion.

Part cultural memoir, part technology critique and part vision for human-centred AI, The Algorithm of Faith offers a path between blind tradition and algorithmic manipulation, towards conscious choice in an age of endless influence.