NEW YORK, NEW YORK / AGILITYPR.NEWS / May 05, 2026 / Jamie Metzl—a leading futurist and bestselling author exploring the deepest implications of our technological transformation—is challenging a longstanding assumption in the hospitality industry: that the Bible is the only religious text regularly made available in hotel rooms. In a letter addressed to Marriott’s board of directors today, Metzl is challenging the status quo of offering only the Christian Bible to hotel guests by offering Marriott up to one million copies at cost of his new book, The AI Ten Commandments. 

Co-written with the artificial intelligence system GPT-5 The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity draws from the full sweep of recorded human history, including all of our various religious, spiritual, moral, and ethical traditions from every culture, to distill ten shared principles rooted in our common humanity. The book does not aim to replace any one tradition, but instead to reflect the wisdom that underpins and connects them all. 

“Today,” Metzl writes in his letter, “Marriott welcomes guests from every culture, faith, and philosophy. A growing share are not Christian. Many come from traditions rooted in Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and beyond. Others identify with no formal religion but are still searching for meaning, connection, and guidance. This growing pluralism raises the question of how Marriott can continue to support your guests in your meaningful traditional way while also respecting the full diversity of your customers.”

“Placing these books in your hotel rooms, alongside the existing copies of the Bible and the Book of Mormon,” Metzl writes, “would send a simple but powerful message that all guests are welcome and that hospitality in a world shaped by many traditions should reflect the wisdom connecting us all.”

About Jamie Metzl

Jamie Metzl is a leading voice on artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the future of humanity. He is a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a Singularity University expert, and the author of seven books, including the international bestsellers Superconvergence and Hacking Darwin. Jamie previously served in the U.S. National Security Council and State Department, with the United Nations in Cambodia, and on the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing. His ideas have reached hundreds of millions worldwide through his books, podcasts, media appearances, and speaking. He holds degrees from Brown, Harvard Law School, and Oxford and is an avid Ironman triathlete and ultramarathon runner.

Jamie Metzl’s letter to the Marriott Board of Directors

David S. Marriott, Chairman

Anthony G. Capuano, President and Chief Executive Officer

Isabella D. Goren

Deborah Marriott Harrison

Frederick A. Henderson

Lauren R. Hobart

Grant F. Reid

Horacio D. Rozanski

Susan C. Schwab

Aylwin B. Lewis

Margaret McCarthy

Sean Tresvant

Board of Directors

Marriott International, Inc.

7750 Wisconsin Avenue

Bethesda, MD 20814

May 5, 2026

Dear Chairman Marriott and Marriott International Board of Directors,

For more than a century, Marriott properties have graciously placed copies of the Bible in guest rooms, often alongside the Book of Mormon, offering comfort, reflection, and moral guidance to travelers from around the world.

That tradition has helped people in their daily lives and times of need.

But the world those rooms serve has changed over the last hundred years.

Today, Marriott welcomes guests from every culture, faith, and philosophy. A growing share are not Christian. Many come from traditions rooted in Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and beyond. Others identify with no formal religion but are still searching for meaning, connection, and guidance.

This growing pluralism raises the question of how Marriott can continue to support your guests in your meaningful traditional way while also respecting the full diversity of your customers.

One approach would be to place a broader set of religious texts in every room, including the Qur’an, the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Analects, the Guru Granth Sahib, and others. As a practical matter, however, stocking a library of world scripture in each of your roughly one million U.S. hotel rooms would be nearly impossible to execute and maintain.

I am writing to propose a different path.

In my new book, The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity, I describe my collaboration with the AI system GPT-5 to draw from the full sweep of recorded human history, including all of our various religious, spiritual, moral, and ethical traditions from every culture, to distill ten shared principles rooted in our common humanity. The goal is not in any way to replace any tradition, but instead to reflect the wisdom that underpins and connects them all.

To that end, I would like to offer Marriott up to one million copies of The AI Ten Commandments at cost, with no profit to me, for placement in your guest rooms.

Placing these books in your hotel rooms, alongside the existing copies of the Bible and the Book of Mormon, would send a simple but powerful message that all guests are welcome and that hospitality in a world shaped by many traditions should reflect the wisdom connecting us all.

I would welcome the opportunity to explore this idea with you and am prepared to move forward immediately should you accept my offer.

I have enclosed a copy of the book and would be happy to send more sample copies should you require them.

You can also learn more about the book at theaitencommandments.com.

Kindly respond to me at jamiemetzl.com/contact.

With deep appreciation for your leadership,

Jamie Metzl

NYC

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