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An atheist requested a "religious accommodation" to refuse AI at work—and his university agreed. David Durman says generative AI conflicts with his Humanist beliefs. Kudos to @americanhumanist.bsky.social for making it happen! www.friendlyatheist.com/p/atheist-wi...

friendlyatheist.comAtheist wins “religious exemption” to get out of using AI at workDavid Durman used a religious accommodation law to protect his conscience and his ability to do his job without generative AI

27/10/26, 1:18 pm46 reposts178 likes

JazzComposer

@jazzcomposer.bsky.social

With AI you can pay lots of money to get wrong answers very fast ! Why is that a good thing ? www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

computerworld.comOpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flawsIn a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

linuxnerd

@loonerlinuxnerd.bsky.social

Insert obligatory Butlerian Jihad reference *here*

Baxter

@gbauer1833.bsky.social

I think this gives Humanists a bad look.

thisiseasy.bsky.social

@thisiseasy.bsky.social

52m

In what way?

Mark Slater

@markslater.bsky.social

48m

Huh?!

Jessica Knaak

@stormcat3.bsky.social

I wonder if there are any humanist organizations that can make an official statement to this effect, and then they can be used by anyone of any belief system to get out of using AI. Lots of people are religious humanists.

Tawreos

@tawreos.bsky.social

It will be interesting to see if AI becomes a "gift" from god or a "curse" from hell to the televangelists.

Steve

@stevewmobb.bsky.social

Surely trying to create something in our image (at least digitally) is blasphemy?