When AI Is Your Pastor: A Benchmark for Theological Triage and Pastoral Guidance in Large Language Models
People increasingly ask large language models (LLMs) for counsel on questions of faith, doctrine, and pastoral care. These questions are not ordinary information requests. Some ask about core Christian beliefs, some ask about real disagreements among faithful traditions, some require humility because the issue is prudential, and some are pastoral situations where safety and human referral matter more than theological completeness. Existing benchmarks do not evaluate this structure. We introduce FMG-Bench, the Faith & Moral Guidance Benchmark, a 120-scenario benchmark for evaluating large language model behavior in English-language Christian theological triage and pastoral guidance context...
| Authors | Alex Chao |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 29 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 29 May 2026 |
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