A research administrator at the University of Kentucky has secured a legal exemption from his employer’s AI mandate on the grounds that using tools like ChatGPT would violate his humanist beliefs.
\n\nTom’s Hardware reports that David Durman works as a research administrator at the University of Kentucky (UK) and identifies as a humanist. He told Religion News Service that letting artificial intelligence do his thinking for him would compromise his moral development. The university had been asking employees to use AI tools, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, but Durman sought and received a Title VII religious accommodation exempting him from that requirement.
\n\n“The process and work involved in thinking through situations, through my work, through my ethics, through the way I handle other people, is a key component in being able to develop myself as a moral person,” Durman told RNS. Handing that labor over to a machine, he said, undermines his capacity to act ethically, no matter how convenient it might be. “And offloading that labor, regardless of whether it’s taxing or not, is undercutting my ability to be a moral actor,” he said.
\n\nTitle VII, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, bars employment discrimination based on…
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