Purpose
At Our Adventist Life, we want to responsibly explore generative AI as a tool to support our work, while safeguarding the integrity, authenticity, and spiritual values of our content.
1. Definitions
- Generative AI: Technologies (like ChatGPT, image-generation tools, etc.) that can create text, images, or other content from prompts.
- User Input / Prompt: The words, phrases, or instructions given to an AI tool.
- AI Output: The content or response generated by the AI in reply to the prompt.
2. Principles & Values
- Transparency: We will clearly disclose when content has been generated or significantly assisted by AI.
- Integrity: All outputs from AI will be reviewed, edited, plagiarism checked, and fact-checked by our human team before publication.
- Copyright & Attribution: If AI-generated content relies on copyrighted material or third-party IP, we will respect copyright law and give appropriate attribution, or avoid unlicensed use.
- Responsible Use: We will use AI to assist (brainstorming, drafting, ideation) — not to replace original human insight, especially on theological, spiritual, or deeply personal content.
- Governance & Review: Our AI usage and process are reviewed regularly in light of new tools, industry changes, ethical concerns, and theological reflection.
3. Acceptable Uses
We may use generative AI for:
- Brainstorming ideas, outlines, or prompts.
- Generating first drafts or summaries, which are then revised by humans.
- Helping with research or compiling reference lists (though human verification is required).
- Creating supportive content (e.g., metadata, images, or supplementary content).
4. Prohibited or Restricted Uses
- We will not publish AI-generated scripture-based teaching or theological content without careful human oversight.
- We will not rely on unedited AI output for final publication in places where trust, spiritual sensitivity, or doctrinal accuracy matters.
- We will not use AI in a way that misleads readers into thinking content was entirely written by a person if it was mostly generated by AI.
5. Attribution & Disclosure
- Any post or section created or significantly assisted by AI will include a Generative AI author attribution (e.g., “The article byline will include the human writer and editor, as well as disclose Generative AI next to the human author”).
6. Risk Mitigation
- Fact-checking: All AI-generated factual content (history, health, doctrine) is verified by humans.
- Bias Awareness: We acknowledge that generative AI can reflect biases. We commit to reviewing its outputs carefully for theological, cultural, or ethical bias.
- Copyright Risk: We acknowledge concerns about plagiarism and copyright infringement in AI outputs; when in doubt, we will rework, cite, or discard. Using prompting techniques to minimize this risk.