FID-040
AI Power Concentration and Subsidiarity Benchmarks
How can Fide AI evaluate whether AI systems and governance arrangements preserve meaningful local agency for churches, schools, ministries, nonprofits, families, and vulnerable communities rather than concentrating power in vendors, platforms, central institutions, or distant technical experts?
Why this matters
The question behind the brief.
Faith communities may become dependent on AI systems they cannot inspect, contest, configure, exit, or govern. Even helpful systems can weaken local responsibility if important norms are set only by platform defaults, proprietary models, centralized policy teams, or opaque institutional contracts. Subsidiarity turns this into a measurable question of community agency and accountability.
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How to place this call.
Program
Governance, procurement, and institutional readiness
Standards for ministry workflows, agent delegation, confidential memory, monitoring, procurement, incident reporting, subsidiarity, collective discernment, plural association, and institutional futures.
Program
Human dignity, work, vocation, and the common good
Questions drawn from Christian social thought about dignity, labor, forgiveness, data, power, and non-calculability.
Ways to help
Move this from question to evidence.
Review subsidiarity indicators and governance scenarios.
Contribute case studies from churches, schools, nonprofits, and platform deployments.
Build practical measures for exit rights, audit access, and local override.
Connect this work to AI governance, civic technology, and ecclesial polity expertise.
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