Today I overnighted the following letter to David Marriott and the other members of the Marriott International Board of Directors.
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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
jamiemetzl.com