Definition
Pastoral AI guardrails are product rules that prevent AI from handling work that belongs to pastors, counselors, guardians, finance teams, or human approvers.
Why it matters
The most important question about ministry AI is not only what it can generate. It is what the product will refuse when the prompt is risky.
Collie's boundary
Collie refuses sermon generation, counseling or confessional content, crisis processing, summaries about specific children, writable financial actions, and automatic sends.
Related questions
What is the strongest pastoral AI guardrail?
A visible human approval step before external actions is one of the strongest guardrails because it creates a real review point.
Should pastoral AI process counseling notes?
No. Collie refuses counseling, confessional, crisis, abuse, and self-harm content before it reaches the model.