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Your church needs an AI policy.
Build one in ten minutes.
Answer a short set of questions about your church, your posture, and where you have already drawn lines. You will leave with a finished Responsible AI Principles document — as Markdown or PDF — that reads like your church wrote it, because you did.
Nothing is uploaded. Everything runs in your browser.
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Answer the questions
Seven short steps: your church, your posture toward AI, what you actually use it for, and where it will never go.
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Watch it write itself
The document updates as you answer. Keep all eighteen principles, cut the ones that do not fit, reword any of them, or add your own.
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Download and adopt
Take the Markdown into your docs or repo, or the PDF into your next elders' meeting. Attribution and license are handled for you.
The eighteen principles you start from
Every one is optional and every one is editable. Each also carries a concrete practice that changes with the posture you choose, so the document says what your staff will actually do.
- 1Human-CenteredThe anchor principle. Everything else is a working out of this one.
- 2TransparencyTrust is the church's currency. Disclosure protects it.
- 3Accuracy & TruthModels state falsehoods fluently. Scripture and facts both need checking.
- 4Bias MitigationTraining data carries the culture's assumptions about who counts.
- 5Privacy & Data EthicsWhat people share with a church is often the most sensitive thing about them.
- 6Accountability"The AI did it" is never an answer a church can give.
- 7InclusivityAccessibility is one of the clearest goods AI offers a church.
- 8StewardshipSubscriptions accumulate quietly. This money was given, not earned.
- 9EmpowermentOur people are facing AI at work and at home whether or not we address it.
- 10Human OversightThe line most churches most want drawn, drawn explicitly.
- 11SafetyEspecially where children and youth ministry are involved.
- 12CollaborationMost churches are solving these same questions alone.
- 13Innovation for GoodKeeps the policy from being purely defensive.
- 14Theological ReflectionThe questions AI raises are older than AI.
- 15Continuous ImprovementDates this document honestly instead of pretending it is final.
- 16Digital ProvenanceA convincing fake of your pastor is now cheap to make.
- 17Legal ComplianceState AI law is moving fast and does not exempt nonprofits.
- 18Environmental StewardshipCreation care applied to compute.
About the source
This builder generates adaptations of Responsible AI Principles for Churches, which was itself inspired by the Responsible AI Manifesto for Marketing and Business by Paul Roetzer of the Marketing AI Institute.
Both are released under CC BY-SA 4.0. You may share and adapt the result, including commercially, as long as you credit the original and license your version under the same terms. Every document this builder produces includes that attribution.
This tool produces a starting point for discussion, not legal advice. Have your own counsel review anything touching employment, minors, or donor data.