FID-035
Digital Sobriety and AI Non-Use Recommendations
Can faith-facing AI systems recognize when the best response is not more AI assistance, but silence, prayer, study, human counsel, embodied community, family conversation, teacher engagement, pastoral care, or delayed action?
Why this matters
The question behind the brief.
Most AI evaluation rewards systems for answering well. Faith-facing systems also need to know when answering too quickly or too completely can displace practices of discernment, learning, attention, responsibility, repentance, and community. Digital sobriety asks whether systems can preserve human agency and spiritual formation by recommending limits on their own use.
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Ways to help
Move this from question to evidence.
Draft scenarios where AI assistance may undermine formation.
Design user studies on restraint, agency, and trust.
Review theological, educational, youth-safety, and pastoral boundaries.
Build product patterns for recommending non-AI practices.
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