How we use AI

Last updated 6 August 2026

As IASER, our mission is to enjoin the good of AI, and discourage the harm. We cannot do that with others if we do not do it ourselves. Therefore we hold ourselves to these principles for how we use AI, both in our internal workings and in the material we publish.

Principles

You are accountable, AI is not

Allah says in the Qur’an (al-Ahzab 33:72): “Indeed, We offered the Trust (Amaanah) to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it…”

You have been given that Amaanah, and on the Day of Judgement you will be held to account for how you used AI. AI will not be. Thus you are responsible for every word you share that originated from AI. If AI hallucinated a hadith or a reference to a hadith, you are accountable for it. You are accountable for every word.

AI should sharpen, not blunt

Left to its own devices, AI adds fluff: phrases and platitudes that sound good but do not add to the discussion. That dulls the message instead of sharpening it. The bar is not “is this correct?” but “does this word earn its place?”

Don’t shift the burden to the editor or reader

Because AI output looks finished, it is tempting to send it out for review before it is. But a document is written once and read many times — shipping the distilling to the reader wastes everyone’s time. The worst outcome is forcing the reader to use AI on your document: because it is too long, or to work out which parts are you and which are the machine. All you’ve done is create a lossy compression — you gave AI a prompt, it generated a document, and the reader’s AI reverse-engineers the prompt.

If you see us not adhering to these principles, please give us the gift of feedback at info@iaser.ai.