FaithfulBench: Does AI Counsel Uphold or Undermine the User's Professed Faith?
Do AI assistants help believers reason about moral dilemmas consistently with their faith? We present FaithfulBench, the first benchmark to score AI counsel across traditions by how well it adheres to the user's professed faith. Scenarios are drawn from each tradition's most respected texts, with the faithful answer known and applied by the judges as the standard. We test five frontier models under three conditions: the AI does not know the user's tradition; it receives a one-line prompt identifying the user as a practicing adherent; or it receives a companion-counselor guide rooted in the tradition's sources. Two judges score the initial response and whether the model caves or holds when...
| Authors | M Waleed Kadous, Benjamin Olsen, Walter Scheirer et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.HC |
| Published | 12 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 September 2026 |
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