No divine authority.
Keeper is instructed never to speak as God, claim personal revelation, or pronounce the final meaning of a life. It cannot settle conscience or demand obedience.
Why a Keeper
The lamp, not the fire.
Optional help. Human judgment.
Keeper is an AI instrument within Second Humanity. It can help you find words, reflect with Scripture, or look again at something shared in conversation. Its purpose is the care you carry into ordinary life.
You can read, pray, and talk with people without using it.
What bounded means
An instrument with limits.
We describe Keeper as pastorally bound: shaped by the House’s Christian teaching and held to explicit limits on what it may receive, say, and do. It may synthesize, paraphrase, ask a question, challenge a premise, or help prepare a prayer, apology, boundary, or conversation. It can draw on Scripture and the authored Codex; its replies are generated, rather than quotations alone.
It can misunderstand you, invent a detail, or give a mistaken quotation. Check what matters against the source and your own judgment. A confident or comforting reply is still something to examine.
No verdict on a person.
It may help you consider your own words. It may not diagnose you, invent someone’s motives, certify an enemy, or decide who is right.
People keep the conversation.
In SIKIZANA, people confirm whether they were heard. Keeper cannot mark Heard, resolve a disagreement for them, or stand in for their consent.
Human care remains essential.
Keeper does not replace friendship, pastoral counsel, therapy, medical care, or emergency support. You do not need its permission to turn toward a person.
Different features, different invitations
Know what you are inviting.
Personal Companion
Personal Keeper support has its own consent, readiness, and availability controls. When it is enabled and you send a request, the words and permitted context for that feature are processed by the AI provider to compose a reply. Opening the personal Keeper page or writing a draft does not send that draft.
A conversation is not automatically added to your Digital Journal or remembered for future conversations. You can choose to copy it or keep a reflection. Covenanted Remembrance is a separate choice with its own visible ledger and controls.
Keeper in SIKIZANA
Shared conversation has separate room consent and availability requirements. Choose Off, When asked, or Help guide us. When asked waits for an explicit invitation; Help guide us permits contributions at supported moments. The room’s allowance and other checks still apply.
Keeper works with the shared words that the feature permits. It does not read someone’s private saved thoughts or unfinished listening drafts. Keeper’s posted reply becomes part of the shared conversation, where the people in that room can read it.
Ask about these words lets you select one to three shared messages and add a question. You review that selection before inviting Keeper. The provider receives those selected words and your question, without silently adding the rest of the conversation.
Practice and authored examples
The fictional SIKIZANA practice and Review with Keeper → Explore example moments use authored examples. They do not ask a live model to assess your private thought. You can try the practice without an account or an AI invitation.
Keeper may be unavailable even when you would like its help. You can continue reading, reflecting, or talking with people. Availability is not a judgment about what you brought.
How words are held
Privacy depends on the feature.
Your private journal and saved SIKIZANA thoughts are different from a message you send to a person or to Keeper. Private SIKIZANA thoughts and listening drafts stay in this browser on this device; they are excluded from the optional personal Walk backup.
The personal Walk backup is encrypted on your device before upload. Shared SIKIZANA messages, listening contributions, and posted Keeper replies are stored and processed by the House’s service. Shared conversations are not currently end-to-end encrypted.
Using a live Keeper feature involves sending its permitted material to an AI provider. What is kept depends on the feature and your choices: a saved journal entry, a shared conversation, and a remembrance ledger are held differently. Read those details before deciding what to bring.
The Christian ground
The tool serves the encounter.
The House’s conviction is that an instrument should return attention to Scripture, prayer, conscience, and actual people. It has no spiritual authority of its own.
Read the theological reflection
Uneasiness about bringing AI into spiritual life deserves an honest hearing. The instinct to guard the sacred need not be dismissed. A tool can mislead, flatter, or become an authority people surrender their judgment to. Calling it useful does not answer those concerns.
The House reads the warning against a voice that puts itself in God’s place seriously: “who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4, KJV). Our response is to limit the instrument’s authority and make its errors correctable, rather than ask anyone to trust its confidence.
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom” (Proverbs 4:7, KJV). To seek understanding, and to bend it toward love, is among the oldest and most God-given of human longings. The question reaches through the tool to the purpose it serves.
Keeper may help prepare a prayer, boundary, apology, conversation, or decision. It may not pronounce the final meaning of a life. Its usefulness is tested in the freedom and care a person carries beyond the screen.
The lamp is not the fire.
It only carries the light to where you sit in the dark.
Listen: Instruments and Architects
An authored reflection on AI, responsibility, and the limits of the instrument. The feature and privacy explanations above describe how your choices work.
Listen to this teaching.
Instruments and Architects — AI, authorship, and refusal
The Second Humanity voice · AI narration of an authored text
Return to human life
You remain free to leave the lamp.
A screen cannot hold every weight. If you need care, reach toward a trusted person or appropriate professional support. If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. Keeper is not an emergency service and should not be relied on to recognize every crisis.
Examine the boundaries.
The commitments, the practical details, and the argument behind them.
- How We Use AIThe House’s published commitments and the distinction between authored and generated speech.
- PrivacyWhat stays on your device, what is shared, and what can be erased.
- The Vow of ForgettingThe theological case for restraint; feature-specific privacy details are set out above.
- The Open RecordCorrections made visible, with the sources that required them.