Cultural AI Resistance Index (CARI) Dataset: YouTube Audience Discourse on Religion, Culture and Artificial Intelligence — FCAE Empirical Validation Corpus (n=800, April 2026)

Cultural AI Resistance Index (CARI) Dataset: YouTube AudienceDiscourse on Religion, Culture and Artificial Intelligence —FCAE Empirical Validation Corpus (n=800, April 2026) This dataset contains 800 YouTube comments collected viathe YouTube Data API v3 (April 2026) across five searchdomains targeting audience discourse on cultural, religious,and identity-based responses to Artificial Intelligence:(1) artificial intelligence soul human spirituality religion(2) AI replacing human creativity soul authenticity(3) religion technology AI ethics morality faith(4) AI threat human identity culture tradition values(5) Orthodox Christianity technology modernization resistance The corpus is the primary empirical validation dataset forthe Cultural AI Resistance Index (CARI) — a novelcomputational metric measuring the proportion of sacredresistance markers relative to total cultural engagementmarkers in naturalistic consumer-generated discourse. CARI = Sacred Resistance / (Sacred Resistance + Pragmatic Adoption)1.0 = pure Sacred Resistance (FCAE theme 1)0.5 = Selective Adaptation zone (FCAE theme 2)0.0 = pure Pragmatic Adoption Grounded in:- FCAE framework: Faith-Centered AI Engagement (citation omitted blind review)- Moscovici (2000) Social Representations Theory- Saroglou (2011) Religion and moral identity- Hofstede (2001) Uncertainty Avoidance Maps to 3 FCAE themes:- Sacred Resistance → CARI approaching 1.0- Selective Adaptation → CARI approaching 0.5- Moral Negotiation → CARI with high MN markers KEY FINDINGS:- Mean CARI: 0.8224 (Sacred Resistance dominant)- Sacred Resistance density: 0.9466/100 tokens (dominant)- Moral Negotiation density: 0.7937/100 tokens (second)- Selective Adaptation density: 0.3155/100 tokens- Pragmatic Adoption density: 0.1388/100 tokens (minimal)- Sacred Resistance cluster: 114 comments (48.3% categorised)- Selective Adaptation cluster: 100 comments (42.4%)- Pragmatic Adoption: 22 comments (9.3%)- Moral Negotiation: 1 comment (0.4%) DOMAIN-LEVEL CARI:- AI creativity/soul/authenticity: CARI=1.000 (pure Sacred R.)- Religion/tech/ethics/morality: CARI=0.9406- Orthodox/modernization: CARI=0.7500- AI/soul/spirituality: CARI=0.8177- AI/identity/tradition: CARI=0.5484 (closest to Selective) THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE:Mean CARI=0.8224 confirms that cultural/religious AIdiscourse is strongly Sacred Resistance dominant — validatingthe FCAE framework's central claim that spiritual-culturalidentity mediates AI adoption in tradition-bound societies.Domain gradient from CARI=1.000 (creativity/soul) toCARI=0.5484 (identity/tradition) maps precisely onto theFCAE's three-theme spectrum: Sacred Resistance → SelectiveAdaptation → Moral Negotiation. Pragmatic Adoption isthe minority discourse (9.3%) — confirming that inculturally conservative contexts, functional utilityarguments do not dominate AI engagement. Files:- cari_videos.csv: 50 unique videos metadata- cari_comments.csv: 800 raw comments- cari_results.csv: CARI scores + FCAE theme annotation Method: YouTube Data API v3. Python 3.12, April 2026.