Man given first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work

David Durman, a research administrator at the University of Kentucky, received a Title VII religious accommodation from university officials exempting him from using AI, arguing that doing so would violate his beliefs as a humanist. He told Religion News Service that outsourcing his thinking to tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot would undercut his ability to be a moral actor, and federal courts have ruled that humanism qualifies as a religion under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.