Seed the independent public standard for faith-facing AI.

Fide AI is inviting funding conversations with donors and foundations who want independent nonprofit research, evaluation infrastructure, and field guidance for faith institutions navigating AI.

The opportunity

AI is entering spaces of deep trust: formation, inquiry, education, teaching, content creation, and pastoral-adjacent guidance. Faith communities need credible standards before adoption is shaped primarily by vendor claims, uneven local capacity, or fragmented institutional judgment.

What has changed

Fide AI is no longer only an institutional proposal. The benchmark corpus, standalone runner, scoring infrastructure, publication materials, and reproducibility plans are now being organized under the Fide AI public-standard repository.

Research Faith & Moral Guidance Benchmark v1 is the first benchmark program, with naming and paper titles still subject to refinement.

Operations Artifact storage, release boundaries, human calibration needs, and publication workflows are being documented.

Why nonprofit

Fide AI is designed as a nonprofit because the core asset is public trust. The standard should not be owned by a single vendor, optimized for shareholder returns, or shaped by the commercial interests of any participant.

Product work belongs in product companies. Public Benefit Corporation logic is better suited to subscriptions, partner deployments, commercial tooling, equity, and operating speed. Fide AI should remain the independent nonprofit home for standards, research, evaluation governance, and access.

How resources are used

Build the public standard Benchmark methods, scenario development, scoring framework, public release package, and reproducibility infrastructure.

Operate independent review Reviewer recruitment, human calibration, adjudication, quality control, data stewardship, and release governance.

Equip institutions Institutional guidance, training, case studies, field education, donor reporting, and decision support.

Widen access and accountability Scholarship participation, open resources, funding transparency, governance reporting, and support for under-resourced ministries.

Governance commitments

No pay-for-rank outcomes.
Conflict disclosure, recusal, and related-entity firewall.
Published methods, caveats, limitations, and corrections policy.
Funding transparency and public accountability reporting.

Help build the standard before the field needs it most.

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