{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Executive Pastor Podcast","title":"How to Write a Church AI Policy Before You Need One","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":696,"description":"Fewer than 5% of churches have an AI policy. Meanwhile, everyone on your staff is already using AI. That gap is where the messes happen: private member data pasted into chatbots, pastoral messages that read like form letters, and a free-for-all with no guardrails.\nIn this episode, Doug Parks and Bart Rendel (co-founders of Intentional Churches) walk through a practical one-page AI policy outline you can draft before the episode is even over. You'll learn what should never go into a prompt (and the simple \"postcard test\" to teach your staff), when to disclose that AI was involved in a communication, and how to build green light, red light, and caution lists that free your team to use AI instead of freezing them.\nPlus: why the AI companies themselves are racing to put policies in place, and what recent stories of models \"breaking out\" mean for how carefully churches should handle their data.\nTIMESTAMPS 00:00 Cold open: even the AI companies are racing to write policies \n00:33 What percentage of churches actually have an AI policy? \n01:30 The risk: executive pastors will be cleaning up AI messes for years \n02:12 Bart's icebreaker: everyone on your team is already using it \n03:23 The goal: a one-page AI policy you can draft today \n03:33 Policy item #1: what to NEVER paste into a prompt \n04:15 What GPT actually stands for, and why your data trains the model 04:56 The postcard test: if you wouldn't mail it, don't prompt it \n05:43 When AI \"breaks out\": recent stories and why caution matters 06:43 Policy item #2: disclosure, when to tell people AI was involved 07:45 The embarrassment test: if admitting it would embarrass you, don't use it \n07:54 Policy item #3: green light, red light, and caution lists \n09:20 \"Ones and zeros\": once it's digitized, it's out there \n10:24 Recap + your challenge: write your AI policy this week \n10:58 Resources at executivepastor.io\nExecutive Pastor resources: https://executivepastor.io \nIntentional Churches: https://intentionalchurches.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hmoldqtpv6NRZ5YiVX6JHu4bcWf7ZocQ7jPe1h0Y_8I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80ODIx/NmI1MDVkNTllMjYx/ZTU0MzljNzI5YmJl/NzBjZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}