Free Toolkit · 39 pages

The Church AI Policy Toolkit

Every AI concern a church names is about what comes out. Every AI incident a church has is about what went in. This is the toolkit for the second one — written for the person who holds the database.

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What's inside

What your database actually holds, the four doors it leaves by, and what the vendors do with it once it has
What privacy law does for a church, which in most states is nothing — and how background-check and counselling records are treated differently
Five practices that hold, and what to do this week, this month and this quarter
Five conversations to run with your leadership team, with the questions written out and a page to capture what you decide
A fill-in policy template: statement of philosophy, roles and owners, a data classification matrix, an approved tools registry, upload rules, disclosure standards, an incident procedure and a signature page

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Worth knowing

It governs what goes in, not what comes out — whether AI-assisted teaching content is theologically sound belongs to your pastoral team, and the last section of Part one names the resources that cover it. It is written to help you ask your attorney a sharper question, not to replace one.

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