As bosses push workers to use AI, a Kentucky man found a way to opt out: a federal law protecting religious beliefs
Source: Fortune ·
University of Kentucky administrator David Durman is the first Humanist to be granted an AI use exemption under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
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As a teenager, David Durman would read works by Enlightenment philosopher David Hume and the Stoics. Their ideas led him to adopt the Humanist faith, a nontheist system he said centers human well-being and flourishing, which he’s kept for 30 years. Because Humanism’s emphasis is on moral responsibility for one’s choices, the now 45-year-old administrator at the University of Kentucky felt uncomfortable by the “growing normalization” of AI products and systems at work, where colleagues and leadership offered “mounting suggestions” of how to use the tools and floated the idea of going to conventions to learn more about AI. For Durman—who disables Gemini on his Google searches and generally disables as many AI features as he can—surrendering any tasks to the technology chafes against what he sees as the goals of his faith. “To me, the offloading of any decision-making capacity or ability to interpret the world around you—including what’s true, what’s not true, what’s going on with the…