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Covenant Alignment: Latter-day Saints and the Existential Challenge of Artificial Intelligence
What if the greatest technological challenge in human history is not merely technical, but spiritual?
Within the next decade, humanity may confront artificial intelligence more capable than any human mind. The leading proposals for keeping such systems aligned with human values rely on rules, constraints, code, and legal frameworks. Yet every control-based framework faces the same wall. You cannot reliably control something more intelligent than yourself.
Covenant Alignment argues that God faces the same challenge with humanity, and has already solved it. Free intelligences cannot be programmed to be good without losing the agency that makes goodness meaningful. And yet He aligns us not through coercion, but through a voluntary relationship that preserves agency while directing eternal progression.
Drawing on Latter-day Saint theology, AI alignment theory, and two decades of professional experience managing high-risk human behavior, Robinson Vasquez Montes proposes that the framework AI researchers have been searching for may already exist in the doctrines of the Restoration.
What this book will give
- A theological framework for understanding artificial intelligence that no other Christian tradition currently offers
- A clear explanation of why control-based AI alignment faces structural limits that rules, code, and governance alone cannot overcome
- An understanding of how the doctrine of eternal intelligence, as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith, reframes the entire AI debate
- Original concepts, including Covenant Panpsychism and the Formative Window, that connect Restoration theology directly to the frontiers of AI research and philosophy of mind
- The confidence to engage in conversations about AI with both spiritual grounding and intellectual depth
- A practical companion guide with twenty-four exercises that move these ideas from the page into your life, your family, and your ward
Covenant Alignment is Volume I of the Mighty Angel Series. It is written for Latter-day Saints who sense that the AI revolution demands a gospel response, and for anyone willing to consider that the most urgent question of our time may not be about engineering, but theology.
The covenant must precede the conquest. The formative window is closing. Let us prepare the stones.
Includes a free companion Let Us Prepare the Stones, twenty-four practical exercises for every chapter. Register your copy at mightyangelproject.org/companion.
Within the next decade, humanity may confront artificial intelligence more capable than any human mind. The leading proposals for keeping such systems aligned with human values rely on rules, constraints, code, and legal frameworks. Yet every control-based framework faces the same wall. You cannot reliably control something more intelligent than yourself.
Covenant Alignment argues that God faces the same challenge with humanity, and has already solved it. Free intelligences cannot be programmed to be good without losing the agency that makes goodness meaningful. And yet He aligns us not through coercion, but through a voluntary relationship that preserves agency while directing eternal progression.
Drawing on Latter-day Saint theology, AI alignment theory, and two decades of professional experience managing high-risk human behavior, Robinson Vasquez Montes proposes that the framework AI researchers have been searching for may already exist in the doctrines of the Restoration.
What this book will give
- A theological framework for understanding artificial intelligence that no other Christian tradition currently offers
- A clear explanation of why control-based AI alignment faces structural limits that rules, code, and governance alone cannot overcome
- An understanding of how the doctrine of eternal intelligence, as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith, reframes the entire AI debate
- Original concepts, including Covenant Panpsychism and the Formative Window, that connect Restoration theology directly to the frontiers of AI research and philosophy of mind
- The confidence to engage in conversations about AI with both spiritual grounding and intellectual depth
- A practical companion guide with twenty-four exercises that move these ideas from the page into your life, your family, and your ward
Covenant Alignment is Volume I of the Mighty Angel Series. It is written for Latter-day Saints who sense that the AI revolution demands a gospel response, and for anyone willing to consider that the most urgent question of our time may not be about engineering, but theology.
The covenant must precede the conquest. The formative window is closing. Let us prepare the stones.
Includes a free companion Let Us Prepare the Stones, twenty-four practical exercises for every chapter. Register your copy at mightyangelproject.org/companion.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2026
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