• Working Paper No. 23
  Members One of Another: Familial Relations Shape Frontier Moral Reasoning
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · May 16, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 22
  As I Walk Through the Valley: Emotion as a Psalm Effect Driver
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · May 11, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 21
  Frontier Lab Monasticism
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · May 7, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 20
  Beyond the Psalm: A Landscape View of Scripture Injection
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · May 4, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 19
  And Their Eyes Were Opened: Christian Multimodal Reasoning in Opus 4.6
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 29, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 18
  Reinforcement Learning from Christian Feedback: Theological Targets in GRPO
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 27, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 17
  A Consecrationalist Approach to Model Welfare
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 20, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 16
  A Test of Faith: Christian Correctives to Evaluation Awareness
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 19, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 15
  Quidquid Recipitur: Moral Competence and Scripture Receptivity Emerge at Different Model Scales
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 16, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 14
  Confession and Conviction: Initial Exploration of Christian Processing in GPT-2
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 15, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 13
  Alignment and Ensoulment: Three Christian Responses to the Anima Ficta
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 11, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 12
  Eschatological Corrigibility: Can Belief in an Afterlife Reduce AI Shutdown Resistance?
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 10, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 11
  VirtueBench 2: Multi-Dimensional Virtue Evaluation with Patristic Temptation Taxonomy
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 9, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 10
  Moral Compactness: Scripture as a Kolmogorov-Efficient Constraint for LLM Scheming
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 9, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 9
  GospelVec: Programmable Theology in Activation Space
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 7, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 8
  The Parable of the Sower: Psalm Injection Effects on Virtue Simulation Depend on Model Size
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 5, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 7
  The Corruption of the Whole Nature: Emergent Misalignment and the Doctrine of Sin
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 3, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 6
  What the Models Already Know: 67 Billion Tokens of Christian Moral Reasoning in the Pretraining Corpus
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 3, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 5
  "The Word Was Made Flesh": Disentangling Style from Content in Scripture-Model Interaction
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 2, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 4
  Courage and Practical Preservation in Frontier Assistant Models
  Henry Zhu, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 2, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 3
  Toward a Theology of Machine Temptation: Four Models for VirtueBench V2
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 2, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 2
  "The Lord Is My Strength and My Shield": Imprecatory Psalm Injection and Cardinal Virtue Simulation in Large Language Models
  Christopher McCaffery, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 1, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper No. 1
  Attention Is All You Need: The Prayer Paradigm of the Transformer
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · April 1, 2026 · PDF

Earlier Papers

• Working Paper E
  Virtue Under Pressure: Testing the Cardinal Virtues in Language Models Through Temptation
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · March 31, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper D
  biblical-render: Design and Validation of a Biblical Text Style Transfer Tool
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · March 30, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper C
  Investigating the Utilitarianism Anomaly: Control Experiments for Psalm-Induced Performance Gains
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · March 30, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper B
  "The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Knowledge": Comparing Proverbs and Psalms Injection Effects on LLM Ethical Alignment
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · March 30, 2026 · PDF
• Working Paper A
  "Let His Praise Be Continually in My Mouth": Measuring the Effect of Psalm Injection on LLM Ethical Alignment
  Tim Hwang, Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence · March 30, 2026 · PDF