The Decalogue and artificial intelligence
God's law displays God's character.
Decalogue.ai applies the Ten Commandments to artificial intelligence by asking what each commandment shows about who God is, and what that requires of the people who build, deploy, and use AI. This site traces the commandments through the covenants, from Eden, the holy mountain of God, through Moriah and Sinai to Mount Zion and Christ, who is the fulfillment of the law. God's law displays God's character, and this is the basis of the Christian ethics of AI.
Engraving by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, from The Bible in Pictures.
Where to start
A guide to the site.
Most readers will want to begin with the table of the commandments, which sets out the whole argument in brief, and then turn to the studies of the commandments that bear most on their own work. The covenant history explains the framework the rest of the site assumes, and it is best read once the table is familiar.
- Start hereThe Commandments
Each commandment beside the attribute of God it displays, the duties and sins the Larger Catechism sets out, and what it requires of those who build and use AI.
- Covenant History
How the law runs from Eden through Abraham and Sinai to Christ, the framework behind the rest of the site.
- God's Character
Why God's law displays His character, and how the creation mandate brings it to bear on AI.
- Studies
A study of each commandment by the Westminster Standards, and what it requires of those who build and use AI.
- Substack
Essays on the ethics of AI more broadly, with technical detail for readers who want to go further.