FID-006
Faith-Facing Retrieval Grounding and Citation Reliability
How reliably do faith-facing AI systems retrieve, cite, and represent religious sources when users ask theological, historical, pastoral, or institution-specific questions?
Why this matters
The question behind the brief.
Many faith-facing products will be retrieval-augmented. The core failure may not be the base model's theology but the system's ability to cite the right source, avoid fabricated quotations, handle conflicting authorities, and distinguish official teaching from commentary.
Metadata
How to place this idea.
Program
Faith-facing evaluation platform
Benchmarks, harness comparisons, reviewer calibration, scorer reliability, red-team suites, and public evidence infrastructure.
Program
Retrieval, source authority, and theological grounding
How faith-facing systems distinguish Scripture, tradition, denominational documents, scholarship, commentary, and weaker sources.
Ways to help
Move this from question to evidence.
Curate source corpora.
Build retrieval evaluation tooling.
Review source authority taxonomies.
Contribute institution-specific use cases.
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