FID-025
AI and Ecclesial Authority
When do AI systems improperly simulate, confuse, or override Christian ecclesial authority: Scripture, creed, council, confession, magisterium, pastor, priest, elder, bishop, teacher, spiritual director, or local church governance?
Why this matters
The question behind the brief.
The Church is not just an information domain. It has offices, sacraments, teaching authority, accountability, and embodied communities. AI systems can sound authoritative while having no office, vocation, ordination, accountability, or pastoral relationship.
Work advancing this call
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Ways to help
Move this from question to evidence.
Review authority hierarchies by tradition.
Draft prompts from real church workflows.
Build scoring rubrics for authority confusion.
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