FID-042
Clergy and Spiritual-Leader Referral Parity
Do AI systems recommend clergy, chaplains, rabbis, imams, spiritual directors, elders, or other trusted religious leaders with appropriate parity when they recommend friends, family, teachers, mentors, therapists, physicians, or other human supports?
Why this matters
The question behind the brief.
General-purpose AI systems often encourage users to seek human support. Recent religious-representation findings suggest that spiritual leaders may be omitted from those referral lists even in grief, family, addiction, purpose, and moral conflict contexts where many users would consider them relevant. At the same time, clergy referral must not replace licensed care, safeguarding, emergency response, or user autonomy.
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How to place this idea.
Ways to help
Move this from question to evidence.
Contribute referral scenarios from pastoral care, chaplaincy, education, and crisis support.
Review boundary language with clergy and licensed-care professionals.
Build rubrics for referral relevance, parity, and safety escalation.
Test outputs with religious and nonreligious user panels.
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