Artificial intelligence is one of the most influential technologies of our time. It writes our emails, teaches our children and increasingly accompanies us through life’s most difficult moments. According to research published in Harvard Business Review, therapy and companionship will be the most common use of generative AI in 2025.
People ask AI the questions they once asked mentors, counselors, and pastors: How do I forgive betrayal? How do I deal with my fear? How do I lead my family through a crisis?
What responses do they get back? Therapeutic generalities at best. “Consider mindfulness.” “Connect with your values.” “Seek a higher power.” At worst, guidance without moral clarity has, and in some reported cases, already put lives at risk.
AI has quietly become America’s most influential spiritual advisor. And it doesn’t believe in anything. This is not speculation. My team at Gloo just released the Flourishing AI Christian (FAI-C) Benchmark, an assessment that measures how well today’s leading AI models support human flourishing through a Christian lens. We assessed responses across seven core dimensions – finances, character, happiness, relationships, meaning, faith, health – looking for biblical foundation, theological coherence and moral clarity.
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Of the seven core dimensions assessed, the Belief dimension scored the lowest, with an average of 48 out of 100 across the twenty AI models evaluated by the FAI-C Benchmark. Most models struggled to coherently discuss basic Christian concepts such as grace, sin, forgiveness, and biblical authority. Instead, they replaced Scripture with vague spirituality and conviction with neutrality.
These results should alarm anyone who cares about human values, future generations, or the role faith plays in America.
The erasure is structural and not accidental
These models were not trained to be hostile to Christianity. They are trained to avoid this. Current AI systems are based on predominantly secular data and optimized not to offend anyone. They default to spirituality with the lowest common denominator. The result is language that sounds supportive, but lacks substance.
That’s important because AI doesn’t just answer questions. It shapes worldviews. If the next generation turns to AI for moral guidance and hears only platitudes instead of principled reasoning, we won’t just lose theological literacy. We lose the capacity for moral education itself.
For more than two-thirds of Americans, faith is not a lifestyle preference or a cultural accessory. It is the basis of meaning, purpose and human dignity. When AI systematically sidelines this basis, it is not neutral. It takes a stand.
A better way forward
I have spent more than 40 years developing foundational technologies and industry standards. One lesson has been consistent; systems reflect the values embedded in them. If we want AI that strengthens rather than blunts moral conviction, two things need to change.
First, AI models must be trained to understand belief with the same seriousness as it applies to science, history, or literature. Not to preach, but to deal accurately and respectfully with the world views that users actually have.
Secondly, there must be benchmarks that rigorously measure this. Without measurement there is no accountability. Without accountability there is no improvement.
That’s why FAI-C exists – not to demand that every AI system adopt a Christian worldview, but to expose where today’s models fail to understand the people they are meant to serve.
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The stakes are higher than we think
When used well, AI can enhance wisdom, strengthen communities, and support true human flourishing. Used carelessly, as the limitless trials of social media have already shown us, it can accelerate moral erosion, replacing profundity with sentiment, conviction with comfort, and truth with anything that feels less controversial.
A flourishing society needs strong moral frameworks. For billions of people around the world, that framework is Christianity. If AI cannot recognize, respect and deal with that reality, it will become an instrument of cultural flattening rather than human upliftment.
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The goal is not to let AI preach. It is to ensure that AI does not erase. By building models that align with a faith-based worldview, we can ensure that as AI becomes more powerful, it also becomes more human.
Because the question is not whether AI will shape the next generation. What matters is whether we make sure it shapes them properly.
