Four commitments the AIT is built on. This is a charter of method — how we handle the text — not a creed of faith. Read them before the first verse, and hold us to them.
Correctness comes first — above speed, cost, or ambition. Nothing unverified ships. Every book passes two gates: a deterministic check, then an independent, adversarial check by a different AI than the one that translated it. If anything unresolved survives, the book is held for a human. We would rather be slow and right than fast and wrong — and the manuscripts, the lexicon, the textual decisions, and the verification reports are all published. Don’t trust us; check us.
No verse may be lifted out of its passage to make a point. Every citation travels with the text around it, and we prefer whole sections to isolated verses. A verse ripped from its context is not evidence — it is a weapon, and the AIT will not hand anyone one. This is why the section headings, the Life Guide, and every study aid send you to read the whole passage.
The AIT serves no denomination, sect, or agenda — not Catholic, not Protestant, not Orthodox, and not “secular” either. It follows the text and the evidence — the original languages, the oldest and best manuscripts, the lexicon — wherever they lead. Where honest people genuinely disagree, it lays out the options and refuses to rule for any side.
This is not a stance against faith, and it is not neutrality about whether the Bible is true. It is a refusal to let any one faith’s agenda quietly edit the text. What you believe, you bring. What the text says, we keep straight. That is what lets it be a Bible for the believer, the seeker, and the skeptic at the same table.
Say what the text says, plainly. No spin, no jargon, no hiding a clear answer behind “some traditions hold…” And where the text genuinely does not settle something, say that plainly too. Black-and-white does not mean forcing false certainty; it means two refusals at once — we will not fog a clear answer, and we will not fake one. Meat and potatoes: clear where the text is clear, honestly open where it is not.
From the original languages. Free forever. Radically transparent. Beholden to no one.
The AIT translation is free under CC BY 4.0. These principles may be quoted freely.