Governance
Independent standards need public trust.
Fide AI develops standards, benchmarks, evaluations, advisory work, product prototypes, public research, education, and accountability practices for faith-facing AI.
No pay-for-rank
Sponsorship, participation, advisory fees, discounted work, pro bono support, or commercial relationships cannot purchase favorable findings, recommendations, certification, release timing, launch approval, buying support, or marketing claims. Fees and discounts buy or subsidize staff time and analysis, not outcomes.
Related-entity controls
Any related client or participant—including organizations with financial relationships to Fide AI personnel—receives enhanced review, disclosure, recusal from scoring or advisory decisions, and non-conflicted signoff before findings are finalized.
Claims humility
Scores and advisory recommendations are scoped judgments under named assumptions, not theological authority, pastoral authority, universal product approval, or certification of safety. Public reports must state the condition name, model version, and calibration status when applicable.
Public and private accountability
Private client work may protect confidential materials, but methods, limits, correction processes, conflict controls, and public claims must stay understandable. Fide AI does not hide scoring rules, review rules, or reviewer conflicts when public claims are made.
Deployment authority
Fide AI provides research, evaluation, design guidance, and implementation patterns. Churches, ministries, schools, parents, institutions, and builders retain responsibility for whether, where, and how AI systems are deployed.
Sponsor and client non-interference
Sponsors, clients, and contributors may not direct findings, recommendations, publication timing, marketing claims, or suppression of unfavorable results. Sponsorship relationships are disclosed in public materials.
Evaluator scrutiny
When Fide AI publishes evaluation claims, the work should be legible to outside evaluators: access conditions, methodology, conflict handling, release limits, and claim boundaries should be stated plainly enough for independent readers to assess credibility.
Policy areas under development
Room to build products and services without weakening trust.
Fide AI may offer paid evaluations, advisory services, sponsorship opportunities, pilots, product prototypes, and implementation support. These activities are permitted when they preserve claims limits, conflict controls, and the authority of the people and institutions making deployment decisions.
Product Lab Boundaries
Prototypes and sample designs are research-backed product work unless a separate service agreement says otherwise. If Fide AI evaluates a system it helped design, that involvement must be disclosed and reviewed with stronger independence controls.
Claims and Certification
Evaluation results are tied to a specific system, version, setup, and use case. Product-lab participation, advisory support, sponsorship, or benchmark participation does not equal endorsement, certification, or approval unless a separate public Fide AI report explicitly supports that claim.
Conflicts and Related Entities
Related organizations, sponsors, paid clients, sponsored pilots, and product partners can participate only under disclosure, recusal, non-interference, and claims-limit rules.
Human Care and Authority
Fide AI does not promote AI as clergy, pastor, counselor, spiritual director, parent, or substitute for responsible human authority. Systems should be evaluated for boundaries, escalation, and human handoff.
Parent and Minor Safety
Child-facing and family-facing AI requires evaluation for age-appropriate disclosure, tutoring boundaries, companionship and dependency risks, parental visibility, privacy, and escalation for self-harm, abuse, grooming, or unsafe dependence.
Data and Evaluation Records
Paid and unpaid work should define what data is collected, what records are kept, when results can be used for research, and what privacy-protecting summaries may be published.
External Standards Fit
Fide AI may participate in broader AI evaluation communities when doing so strengthens public-interest evaluation practice without weakening its faith-facing mission, claims limits, or responsibility to churches and high-trust institutions.
What Fide AI is not