How DSCPL uses AI.
Our views
As teachers, parents and shepherds of the flock, it is our strong belief that you should do your own critical thinking, your own wrestling with the word of God, to teach, instruct and spur one another onward. AI should never supplement or replace your personal relationship with God.
You have no obligation to use the AI in our system. It is off by design, and opt in only.
We have designed it with purpose, and that purpose is to take your content and turn it into a user friendly design that you then review. We have purposely ensured you have to review every step and do a double check, to control what gets onto people's devices.
AI drafts discussion questions, family conversation starters, prayer prompts and challenges from the church's own passage and the admin's own teaching points.
Four rules govern it.
- Every church starts with it switched off.
- An admin turns it on, and can turn it off again at any time.
- Three generations a week, and an unused week is not carried over.
- A person reviews every generated item before anything publishes.
- What does the AI have access to?
- Only what the person preparing the teaching gives it: the title, the Bible passage, the age group or the group's description, their own notes and any document they upload, plus your church's type and denomination so the tone fits. It never sees your children, families, check-ins or anything else in your church's records.
- What if someone types a person's name into their notes?
- Before anything is sent, DSCPL checks the notes against the names of the children, parents and leaders in your church, and for phone numbers, email addresses and street addresses. If it finds one, it stops and asks the person to check it first.
- What about video and podcast links?
- A link is just a link. Nothing about it is sent to the AI.
- Will it sound like AI?
- It is told to write in the voice of your own notes and to avoid the phrases AI tends to use. You can edit everything it drafts.
- Does anything publish without a person?
- No. A person reviews every item before it reaches a family.