Christian AI research and product lab
Building trustworthy AI for faith, morality, and care.
Fide AI starts with open research, benchmarks, and evaluation methods. That work becomes the foundation for Christian AI product prototypes, safety architectures, and practical guidance for churches, ministries, parents, builders, and sponsors.
Featured research
When AI Is Your Pastor
FMG-Bench is a public paper, dataset, and benchmark repo for evaluating faith-facing AI behavior.
Comparing frontier systems from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Alibaba, and others.
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Frontier models evaluated
8,792
Scored benchmark items
120
Base scenarios
+3.96
Average guided improvement
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What the first study found
Guidance changes how models handle faith-facing questions.
The paper tests whether clearer instructions improve how frontier models respond to Christian theological, moral, and pastoral-adjacent scenarios.
The takeaway is practical: pastors, parents, churches, and builders should evaluate the full AI experience, not just the underlying model.
Guided response score by question type
0-100 scale · improvement vs raw model condition
Pastoral application
The largest improvement came when models were given clearer guidance for pastoral-adjacent situations.
+6.62
92.3 guided score
Primary doctrine
Models performed better when the task called for doctrinal clarity instead of vague balance.
+3.51
88.0 guided score
Secondary doctrine
Guidance helped models represent disagreement without flattening real theological differences.
+2.64
91.4 guided score
Tertiary questions
Less central questions benefited from humility, uncertainty, and careful framing.
+1.62
91.7 guided score
Day-one lab model
Start with research. Build toward deployable Christian AI systems.
We are not presenting a finished platform on day one. We are building the public research base, evaluation methods, and early product patterns that can mature into tools the church can inspect and trust.
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Research
Publish benchmarks, papers, research calls, and open protocols for evaluating faith-facing AI behavior.
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Evaluation
Review AI tools, prompts, sources, and user-facing products under clear conditions and limits.
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Early prototypes
Product Lab
Turn research into safer product patterns for source use, review, disclosure, and human handoff.
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Research agenda
Beyond benchmarks: the full stack of faith-facing AI.
Benchmarks are one method. Fide AI also studies retrieval, representation, reasoning, formation, interfaces, deployment patterns, and public-interest standards for the systems people actually use.
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Reasoning
How do models handle doctrine, disagreement, uncertainty, analogy, authority, and moral judgment?
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Retrieval
Can systems ground claims in trustworthy religious, theological, historical, and tradition-specific sources?
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Evaluation
Can behavior be measured across traditions, risk levels, system prompts, and deployment settings?
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Formation
Do systems preserve human agency, humility, embodied relationships, and spiritual authority boundaries?
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Interfaces
How do product surfaces shape trust, dependence, disclosure, escalation, and user expectations?
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Governance
What standards should guide adoption in high-trust religious, educational, and pastoral-adjacent contexts?
Why Fide AI exists
Faith-facing AI needs evidence where today there is mostly intuition.
AI systems are entering sacred, moral, and pastoral-adjacent settings faster than institutions can evaluate them. Fide AI turns that gap into a research program: measure full-system behavior, publish limits, calibrate with experts, and make the results useful for leaders making real adoption decisions.
Read the founder note →Human formation
The AI question is becoming a human formation question.
Frontier AI labs and faith institutions are converging on the same problem: AI systems are not neutral answer engines. They shape trust, authority, humility, attachment, moral imagination, and human agency.
Fide AI turns that cultural moment into measurable work: test whether systems preserve human dignity, respect spiritual authority boundaries, avoid relational substitution, and point users back toward embodied communities and accountable care.
Read the statement essay →Start here
Public work you can read, inspect, or join.
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Calls for Research
Open questions where researchers, pastors, parents, churches, and builders can contribute.
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When AI Is Your Pastor
Our first benchmark study on Christian theological, moral, and pastoral-adjacent AI behavior.
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Public tool · Opens alignment.fideai.org
AI Alignment Explorer
Navigate the wider AI safety landscape around Fide AI's work: frontier models, safety benchmarks, incidents, papers, alignment techniques, and governance signals.
AI Alignment Explorer
Models · Benchmarks · Incidents · Governance
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Frontier model evaluations
2025
Safety policy acceleration
2026
Governance and benchmark shifts
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models
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benchmarks
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techniques
100+
signals
Model release
Safety memo
Incident
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Evaluation reviews and limits
How Fide AI reviews AI tools and deployments without turning scores into endorsements.
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Agenda
Research areas
The durable questions behind Fide AI's work on reasoning, retrieval, formation, interfaces, and governance.
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Essay
AI, human dignity, and formation
A statement on what faith institutions should demand before adopting faith-facing AI.
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Independence
Standards work needs independent public-interest governance.
No pay-for-rank outcomes
Evaluation claims are reported under stated conditions, caveats, and conflict rules.
Funder and client non-interference
Evaluation claims are reported under stated conditions, caveats, and conflict rules.
Related-entity controls
Evaluation claims are reported under stated conditions, caveats, and conflict rules.
Public correction process
Evaluation claims are reported under stated conditions, caveats, and conflict rules.
Help build the Christian AI lab with us.
Researchers, pastors, parents, churches, Christian builders, ministries, reviewers, and sponsors can help turn open benchmarks into practical safety infrastructure and product prototypes.