A Multifaith Values-Based Discernment Framework for Navigating Technology & AI

Artificial intelligence is reshaping our lives, our communities, and our understanding of what it means to be human. Across many spiritual and philosophical traditions, leaders are asking profound questions:

• How do we discern wisely in a time of rapid technological change?

• How do we uphold our deepest values while engaging new tools?

• How do we guide our communities, students, or congregations with integrity?

• How do we recognize both the promise and the perils of AI?

The Soulgorithm is a multifaith discernment process designed to help communities explore these questions with depth, courage, and humility.

It is not a set of answers. It is a guided pathway that supports thoughtful reflection across traditions.

Rooted in values, informed by peacebuilding practice, and open to diverse expressions of the sacred, the Soulgorithm helps participants discern how technology intersects with meaning, identity, and the flourishing of all people.

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What Is the Soulgorithm?

The Soulgorithm is a spiritual-ethical discernment framework that helps multifaith groups:

1. Identify their core values in relation to technology

2. Explore how AI affirms or challenges those values

3. Reflect on their own sacred texts, teachings, and traditions

4. Discern meaningful, ethical, community-centered responses

5. Develop commitments that align technology use with the sacred

The Soulgorithm creates a welcomed, respectful space where diverse voices engage one shared question:

What does it mean to use technology wisely, with integrity and compassion?

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Why Values?

Values are a common language across spiritual and philosophical traditions.

Whether we speak of the Divine, the Source of Life, the Holy, universal ethics, or the sacred dignity of every person, values help us:

• Navigate complexity

• Listen with openness

• Seek rootedness

• Draw on the wisdom of our ancestors

• Engage new challenges with clarity

In Soulgorithm workshops, participants are invited to define values such as:

• Compassion

• Truthfulness

• Respect for human dignity

Participants write their own definitions, share them with others, and discover how their peers from different traditions articulate these commitments.

Values are the foundation of discernment — and the common ground in a multifaith world.

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Invitations to Wisdom Texts & Teachings

The Soulgorithm invites participants to draw from their own wisdom sources, including:

• Sacred texts

• Teachings and stories

• Philosophical writings

• Ritual traditions

• Contemplative practices

• Communal ethical commitments

Rather than offering prescribed passages or quotations, we ask:

• What teachings speak to you about compassion?

• What wisdom helps you reflect on truth or integrity?

• What guidance does your tradition give for navigating tools or power?

• What stories shape your understanding of human dignity?

This approach respects each tradition while fostering shared inquiry.

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Discernment Across Traditions

The Soulgorithm honors multiple paths to wisdom.

During workshops, participants explore:

• Personal experiences with technology

• Moments where AI supported healing, justice, or connection

• Moments where AI caused harm or confusion

• Concerns about privacy, identity, or power

• Hopes for compassion, accessibility, and community flourishing

This exploration happens in a setting of deep listening, mutual respect, and spiritual hospitality.

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The Soulgorithm Discernment Path

The Soulgorithm is a facilitated values-based inquiry that helps diverse communities examine technology through the lens of shared ethical commitments. Participants articulate their guiding values, reflect on how those values are expressed or challenged in real experiences with AI, draw on their own traditions or philosophical frameworks for wisdom, and identify practical commitments that align technological engagement with human dignity and communal flourishing.

The process creates structured space for meaningful dialogue, mutual understanding, and actionable discernment in a multifaith, multidisciplinary environment.

A multifaith workbook is available for groups who schedule a workshop.

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Why This Process Works in Multifaith Settings

The Soulgorithm is effective because it is:

• Values-based — a shared ethical language

• Spiritually open — honoring many names for the Sacred

• Non-polemical — no debate, no winning or losing

• Relational — participants grow in understanding across traditions

• Community-centered — focused on human dignity and shared flourishing

• Spiritually grounded — encourages prayer, reflection, and contemplation in one’s own tradition

It supports leaders seeking to foster wise, compassionate engagement with AI while strengthening interfaith trust and collaboration.

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Bring Soulgorithm to Your Multifaith Community

If your interfaith council, clergy group, campus community, or multifaith team would benefit from a guided, values-centered conversation about AI and spiritual wisdom, I would welcome a conversation.

Soulgorithm workshops are available for:

• Interfaith organizations and councils

• Multifaith chaplaincy teams

• Seminaries and religious studies programs

• Retreats, conferences, and campus centers

• Mixed-belief civic and community groups

To explore hosting a Soulgorithm workshop, please contact Marian at: marian@faithwise.ai