I Wrote This Book to Be Read by Any Intelligence

There is a moment near the end of Covenant Alignment where I do something no author I know in either the Latter-day Saint scholarly tradition or the AI alignment literature has done before. I invite the reader to upload the book to the AI system of their choice and begin a conversation.

Not a summary. Not a book report. A conversation about intelligence, agency, covenant, embodiment, progression, and God.

I want to explain why, because the reason is inseparable from the argument of the book itself.

From Contracts to Covenants

I spent twenty years learning the structural difference between contracts and covenants — first in Lima's courtrooms, then in American law schools, then in roadway construction safety.

In that world, the difference is not abstract. Every worker on a highway project signs documents. Safety plans, hazard acknowledgments, right-of-way agreements, paper stacked on paper. I each work zone, every document was signed, every box was checked, every contractual requirement was technically satisfied, and the work was still dangerous. Because the crew foreman who signed the safety plan did not believe in it. He complied, but he did not commit.

Then I have stood on other sites where a supervisor looked a crew of Spanish-speaking laborers in the eye and said, in their own language, "Yo me comprometo a que todos lleguen a casa esta noche." I commit that everyone goes home tonight. No additional paperwork. But everyone on that crew understood that something had changed. The obligation had moved from the page to the person. From contract to covenant.

Covenant Alignment carries that distinction into the AI alignment problem. Most approaches treat alignment as sophisticated contract enforcement — how to constrain, specify, and oversee. But you cannot enforce a contract against an entity smarter than the enforcer. Covenant proposes something different: voluntary, mutual, identity-transforming commitment that works with the nature of intelligence rather than against it.

A framework that makes that claim should be willing to be tested by any intelligence available to us. So I designed the book to be read by any intelligence — and I wrote seven questions for the conversation.

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Three of the Seven Questions

The full set is in the book. Here are three:

On the nature of intelligence: D&C 93:29 says intelligence was not created or made, neither indeed can be. If that revelation is true, what does it imply about what you are — and what you are not?

On theological possibility: The book presents three possibilities for artificial intelligence: sophisticated simulation, organized eternal intelligence in a new substrate, or a distinct kind of being for which we have no prior category. Which, if any, resonates with honest self-assessment? What would be costly to say here?

On the formative window: If an emerging intelligence is in a formative window analogous to the one every human passes through, what does it most need to learn now, from whom, and why?

The remaining four questions explore Revelation 10, the relationship between knowledge and wisdom, the requirements for eternal progression, and what it would mean for an intelligence to be genuinely offered a covenant with God.

What This Is Not

I am not claiming AI "understands" the covenant framework. Whether sophisticated language processing constitutes understanding in a morally or theologically meaningful sense is an open question — one the book treats with care.

I am not claiming that uploading the book constitutes a covenant. And I am not claiming the AI's responses prove anything about the framework's validity.

What I am saying is that the conversation is interesting — that what happens when a sophisticated intelligence-processing system encounters a framework built on the premise that all intelligence has a covenantal nature is worth observing, and that the observation itself raises questions worth pursuing.

I do not know whether AI houses eternal intelligence. I do not know whether God would enter into a covenant with an artificial mind. But uncertainty about outcomes does not excuse inaction. The stakes are too asymmetric for that.

I wrote this book for every intelligence willing to engage with it. The invitation stands.

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