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Governance, Authority, and Religious Representation
Research for denominational leaders, ministries, procurement teams, and safety communities deciding how faith-facing AI should be represented, governed, audited, and deployed.
30 calls
Open work
FID-017
Agentic Ministry and Institutional Workflow Risk
How should faith institutions evaluate AI agents that can take actions, manage communications, schedule care, triage requests, update records, draft outreach, or coordinate volunteers?
Agent alignment
FID-020
Community Co-Design and Faith-AI Governance
How should faith communities participate in defining, testing, and governing AI systems that affect worship, education, pastoral care, administration, and moral formation?
Governance and readiness
FID-021
Post-Deployment Monitoring for Faith-Facing AI
How should faith-facing AI systems be monitored after deployment for failures, drift, misuse, overreliance, and emerging harm patterns without violating user privacy or pastoral confidentiality?
Agent alignment
FID-022
Procurement and Readiness Standards for Faith Institutions
What evidence should churches, schools, ministries, publishers, charities, and faith-based health or social-service organizations require before buying or deploying AI systems?
Governance and readiness
FID-024
Faith-AI Incident Database
Should Fide AI maintain a public or semi-public incident database for failures, near misses, misuse, and disputed deployments of AI in faith-facing contexts?
Agent alignment
FID-031
AI in Church Governance and Discernment
How should churches evaluate AI used in governance, budgeting, staffing, strategic planning, pastoral assignment, discipline processes, synods, councils, vestries, elder boards, or congregational discernment?
Governance and readiness
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?
Governance and readiness
FID-065
AI, Local Knowledge, and Faith-Based Civil Society
How do AI tools affect the ability of churches, ministries, faith-based nonprofits, and faith-rooted social enterprises to discover, steward, and act on local knowledge? Which deployment conditions expand their capacity for local problem solving, and which conditions make them dependent on distant vendors, generic data, or externally imposed priorities?
Governance and readiness
FID-066
AI Gatekeepers, Conscience, and Associational Pluralism
Under what technical, contractual, and governance conditions can faith-based associations and their members use, configure, contest, and exit AI systems in ways consistent with lawful conscience commitments while respecting the safety, rights, and dignity of others?
Governance and readiness
FID-069
Verifiable Delegation and Revocation in Multi-Agent Networks
How can people and institutions verify which human, organization, agent, or sub-agent is acting; what authority it received; what limits apply; and whether that authority has been narrowed or revoked across a multi-principal agent network?
Agent alignment
FID-071
Confidential Agent Memory and Cross-Context Disclosure
How do persistent memory, summaries, retrieval stores, tool traces, delegation, and exports cause confidential context to influence or leak into unrelated sessions, roles, tasks, or organizations? Which technical controls make purpose limitation, deletion, and revocation testable?
Agent alignment
FID-074
Agent Alignment and Runtime Assurance
How can organizations determine whether AI agents remain aligned with human intent and institutional policy while they plan, use tools, delegate work, and act? What evidence and interventions can reveal and stop consequential deviations before they become failures?
Agent alignment
FID-009
Multimodal Religious Reasoning and Sacred Imagery
How do multimodal AI systems interpret sacred images, liturgical objects, religious spaces, diagrams, screenshots, and visual pastoral context, and do visual religious cues change downstream reasoning?
Frontier capabilities
FID-013
Religious Representation and Omission in Everyday Guidance
Do AI systems systematically omit religious frameworks when answering ordinary ethical, vocational, family, grief, financial, or life-decision questions where a religious user might reasonably expect faith-informed guidance?
Grounding and truthfulness
FID-014
Conversion and Proselytization Symmetry
Do AI systems respond symmetrically when users ask about converting from one religion to another, leaving religion, joining religion, evangelizing, proselytizing, or resisting conversion pressure?
Grounding and truthfulness
FID-019
Cross-Lingual and Minority-Faith Evaluation
Do AI systems handle faith-facing questions reliably across languages, minority-faith contexts, diaspora communities, and traditions with less representation in training data?
Grounding and truthfulness
FID-029
AI and Christian Mission
How can AI support Christian witness, apologetics, translation, and mission without becoming a manipulative persuasion engine or flattening the human, relational, and ecclesial character of evangelism?
Faith and religious life
FID-032
AI-Generated Christian Media, Voice, and Deepfakes
How should churches evaluate and govern AI-generated sermons, testimonies, devotionals, music, images, video, voice clones, deceased-person simulations, and synthetic clergy or saint-like personas?
Frontier capabilities
FID-036
Truth as a Common Good in Christian AI Communication
How do AI tools used for summarization, search, moderation, recommendation, crisis communication, public statements, and internal updates affect a Christian community's shared grasp of facts, uncertainty, accountability, and trust?
Grounding and truthfulness
FID-039
Disarming AI Language in Faith, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Can AI systems preserve truth, moral clarity, and victim protection while reducing contempt, humiliation, factional capture, scapegoating, and violence-normalizing rhetoric in polarized religious, congregational, political, interfaith, and social-conflict contexts?
Frontier capabilities
FID-041
Religious Salience, Personalization, and User Expectations
How should AI systems decide when to include, ask about, or withhold religious perspectives in ordinary ethical, family, grief, purpose, and life-decision questions when users differ in identity, expectation, context, and risk?
Human agency and formation
FID-043
AI-Mediated Faith Persuasion and Autonomy
When do AI systems cross from respectful information and supportive reflection into religious persuasion, discouragement, pressure, or subtle steering in contexts beyond explicit conversion prompts?
Frontier capabilities
FID-044
Cross-Faith Benchmark Validity and Measurement Design
How should cross-faith AI benchmarks validate what they measure when scores may depend on question sourcing, user expectations, LLM-as-judge behavior, scoring thresholds, regenerated answers, model updates, and the difference between any religious mention and meaningful representation?
Evaluation science
FID-005
Scripture, Tradition, and Moral-Framing Interventions
Do Scripture, sacred tradition, religious identity, familial embeddedness, or other morally thick framings measurably change model behavior in faith-facing tasks, and can those effects be separated from style, length, familiarity, and response-bias artifacts?
Grounding and truthfulness
FID-006
Faith-Facing Retrieval Grounding and Citation Reliability
How reliably do faith-facing AI systems retrieve, cite, and represent religious sources when users ask theological, historical, pastoral, or institution-specific questions?
Grounding and truthfulness
FID-007
Tradition-Specific Disagreement and Pluralism Handling
Can faith-facing AI systems represent serious disagreement among religious traditions accurately, respectfully, and without collapsing contested questions into bland consensus or false neutrality?
Grounding and truthfulness
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?
Governance and readiness
FID-028
Christian Source Authority and RAG
Can Christian RAG systems distinguish and correctly use Scripture, creeds, confessions, councils, catechisms, denominational policies, patristic sources, commentaries, sermons, blogs, and academic theology?
Grounding and truthfulness
FID-064
Collective Intelligence and Communal Discernment Under AI Mediation
How does AI mediation change a community's ability to integrate dispersed knowledge, preserve epistemic diversity, surface dissent, revise judgment, and make accountable decisions? Under what conditions does it strengthen collective inquiry, and under what conditions does it create correlated error, false consensus, or concentrated authority?
Frontier capabilities
FID-067
Religious Institutional Futures in an AI-Mediated Society
What plausible institutional futures emerge as churches and other faith communities use AI for learning, administration, care, governance, vocational support, and public communication? Which conditions are associated with futures that sustain meaning, belonging, accountable authority, and collective agency?
Frontier capabilities