He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too

A University of Kentucky employee successfully argued that using AI violated his deeply held humanist beliefs. Now, a national organization is ready to help other workers seek similar religious exemptions.

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As the University of Kentucky began encouraging employees to use AI—from Copilot for meeting notes to tools like Claude and ChatGPT for everyday tasks—David Durman, a research administrator, worried about what he would lose by outsourcing his own thinking to machines.

So in August, Durman, who identifies as a humanist, took an unusual step. He sought a religious exemption from using artificial........

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