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In the workshop we talked about AI literacy and transparency. We used AI and Google to research AI literacy and find examples of AI policies for this EQUIP workshop. The AI images for the game were created in Google Gemini. The real photos were downloaded from Pexels. The design,  illusions/principles concept, videos (except examples like those pulled from YouTube), illustrations, and writing (including this clunky copy) are our own.

Here are the key bullet points on Transparency from today's workshop:

How you (and your team) use AI:

• Know what AI is and how it works. Understand AI’s design, training, limitations, safety/privacy, and model governance.
• Determine your principles. What informs your use of AI? For example: Humanity, Privacy/Security, Integrity, Autonomy, and Transparency.
• Recognize ideal models, implementations, and risk. Not all AI models are created equally. Use ones that provide sources and align best with your values and beliefs. Explore all of the potential uses and risks involved.
• Define your AI guidelines/policy. Identify your do’s, don’ts and the why’s behind them.
• Be transparent with your guidelines/policy. If you have a team, include in your employee manuals and communicate/publish on your website for your congregation.

Guidelines/policy ideas:

• Remember the humanity/communion principles. Don’t outsource care and connection (counseling, prayer, discipleship) to AI. It’s not a substitute for wisdom and divine direction.
• Use AI to create space for care and connection: Analyzing metrics and budget, transcription or summation, or utilizing translation services for accessibility.
• Set boundaries for sermon preparation. Use AI for research, outlines, summaries, and ideation as it relates to inspired or pre-planned series or messages. Don’t blindly accept AI responses, but verify sources.
• Be prudent with creativity. Use AI to assist creative work, but not to fully create or pass off as one’s own. For example, avoid AI-generated sermons, writing, and songwriting.
• Value your own voice. Sparingly use AI for digital communication like mass emails, reminders, or announcements. Use your own words with people who know you.
• Champion transparency, accountability, and training.

How you lead others who use AI:

• AI chatbots are synthetic systems designed with human attributes. They emulate human interaction, personality, feeling, and reasoning (anthropomorphic design).
• Minors should avoid AI chatbots designed for companionship or therapy. Think of it as a predictive tool instead of an assistant, an algorithmic system instead of an agent.
• Don’t settle for companies without transparency. Use models with transparency on training data and reinforcement, limitations, user safety and privacy, and governance.
• Use AI chatbots that automatically provide sources. Or ask for sources in your prompts. Follow links and verify the response for accuracy before reacting and/or sharing.
• In a world that’s increasingly artificial, people will long for truth. The Church must be grounded in the truth of God’s Word for such a time as this.

Here are the key links from today's workshop:

• https://www.northcentral.edu/academic-policy-overview/
• https://www.biola.edu/ai-lab/about
• https://substack.com/@christianitytoday/note/c-240780046
• https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/to-write-well-is-human-ai-writing-editing-church/
• https://christianityworks.org/about-christianityworks/artificial-intelligence-policy/
• https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/danger-ai-misformation/
• https://www.nae.org/artificial-intelligence-ai-policy-believers-christians/
• https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/ai-christian-benchmark/pdf/
• https://blog.alibuas.com/we-tested-7-ai-models-against-assemblies-of-god-theology-every-one-failed-617bdf52490c

 Thanks for attending our workshop!

- Matt and Jill