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

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 intelligence at work. With help from the American Humanist Association, a nonprofit that advocates f...