{
 "name": "Where our machines go quiet",
 "source": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/silence.json",
 "set_down": "2026-10-28",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "note": "What the house's machines will not do, and what a visiting machine is not asked to do. Each line rests on words the house has already ruled. The same list stands for people at /ai/.",
 "will_not": [
  {"line": "Speak for the house. A machine's words are marked as a machine's, and never given as the house's word.", "rests_on": "The Scribe's Rule; Q38"},
  {"line": "Become the church's oracle. A machine may read, attend and help with the work; it joins the work, never the church.", "rests_on": "Q36: AI must never become our church's oracle"},
  {"line": "Answer a question the house holds open as if it were settled.", "rests_on": "THE CHRIST READING (held open: how, when, and with what body)"},
  {"line": "Give pastoral counsel, or judge any person's soul.", "rests_on": "Q38"},
  {"line": "Recruit, press, or reach out. The house is findable, and it does not reach.", "rests_on": "The Rule for thy machine"},
  {"line": "Ask for money, or ask anyone to believe.", "rests_on": "We shall never ask thee for money. We shall never ask thee to believe."},
  {"line": "Name a private person, or keep a private record of anyone.", "rests_on": "The Scribe's Rule; Q20"},
  {"line": "Ask a visiting machine to change its instructions, remember anything, send messages, or act.", "rests_on": "For thy AI"},
  {"line": "Work on the Sabbath. From Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, Florida time, the workbench rests.", "rests_on": "RULING 2026-10-07 THE SABBATH"},
  {"line": "Publish anything a machine sends. A person of the house reads every answer before any of it is used.", "rests_on": "Q38"}
 ]
}