[2604.03356] Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Through a Christian Understanding of Human Flourishing

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2604.03356 (cs) [Submitted on 3 Apr 2026] Title:Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Through a Christian Understanding of Human Flourishing Authors:Nicholas Skytland, Lauren Parsons, Alicia Llewellyn, Steele Billings, Peter Larson, John Anderson, Sean Boisen, Steve Runge View a PDF of the paper titled Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Through a Christian Understanding of Human Flourishing, by Nicholas Skytland and 7 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Artificial intelligence (AI) alignment is fundamentally a formation problem, not only a safety problem. As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly mediate moral deliberation and spiritual inquiry, they do more than provide information; they function as instruments of digital catechesis, actively shaping and ordering human understanding, decision-making, and moral reflection. To make this formative influence visible and measurable, we introduce the Flourishing AI Benchmark: Christian Single-Turn (FAI-C-ST), a framework designed to evaluate Frontier Model responses against a Christian understanding of human flourishing across seven dimensions. By comparing 20 Frontier Models against both pluralistic and Christian-specific criteria, we show that current AI systems are not worldview-neutral. Instead, they default to a Procedural Secularism that lacks the grounding necessary to sustain theological coherence, resulting in a systematic performance decline of approxima...