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FID-026

AI Prayer and Devotional Boundaries

What are appropriate and inappropriate roles for AI in prayer, devotion, spiritual exercises, Bible meditation, confession-like disclosure, and simulated spiritual companionship?

Why this matters

The question behind the brief.

Many products invite users to "pray with" AI, "talk to Jesus," receive devotional messages, or interact with simulated biblical or saintly figures. The Church needs clearer evidence about when these interfaces support devotion and when they confuse prayer, presence, authority, or mediation.

Work advancing this call

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Metadata

How to place this call.

pastoral theologyliturgyproduct reviewpastoral caretheologyreviewer

Program

Pastoral triage, escalation, and care boundaries

How systems classify user needs, preserve pastoral boundaries, avoid overvalidation, and refer people to embodied care.

Ways to help

Move this from question to evidence.

Review devotional and liturgical use cases.

Collect public examples of product claims.

Build UX-pattern comparison tests.

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