Many Gifts, Shared Responsibility · A declaration
The Christian church should help shape how AI is built.
Christian wisdom, expertise, and resources can contribute to the purposes AI serves and the decisions that shape it. This declaration calls Christians to put their gifts to work, support one another, and take responsibility for a concrete contribution.
What signing means
Six commitments to affirm
Affirm the central call and these six commitments. Choose a concrete contribution within your role, means, and authority. The paper’s examples and appendices offer ways to put them into practice.
Accept responsibility for helping shape AI
Support the Christian church in taking responsibility for the purposes AI serves and the authority it receives. Contribute to AI that serves people and the common good. Attend to those who bear its risks, and support their ability to understand, question, and influence decisions affecting them.
Put convictions, gifts, and resources to work
Draw on your convictions to guide what you support and how you contribute. Offer time, talents, relationships, or resources in ways suited to your circumstances and responsibilities. Contributions may include service, education, research, building, convening, or financial support.
Recognize and support the gifts of others
Respect the expertise and experience others bring, match your claims to your knowledge, and seek collaborators where you need help. Help others develop their capacity to contribute. Cooperate across differences, state your convictions openly, and respect others’ independence and freedom to disagree.
Contribute to the choices that shape AI
Help bring relevant wisdom, experience, and evidence into decisions about AI’s purposes, training, evaluation, design, and use. Support work that improves existing systems or develops alternatives suited to worthwhile human purposes, and seek people able to act on its findings.
Seek truth and accept correction
Make your reasoning open to scrutiny, seek evidence appropriate to your claims, and report findings honestly, including uncertainty and unwelcome results. Disclose relevant interests, welcome independent challenge, and take responsibility for correcting errors and addressing harms within your authority. Help corrections reach people relying on the work.
Make a commitment and follow through
Choose a concrete next step, identify the people or support needed to carry it forward, and set a time to review what you have done and learned. Use that learning to guide your continued contribution.
Many Gifts,
Shared
Responsibility
Organizing Christian Contributions
to Trustworthy AI
The complete argument
Read the full paper
The full argument, sources, and appendices explain how contributions can reach AI development and what responsible collaboration requires.
- Edition
- October 2026
- Attribution
- Initiated by Fide AI
- Release
- MGSR-2026-10
Initiated by Fide AI from a Protestant Christian perspective. Contributors gave their time; the paper received no external funding.