教皇利奥十四世谴责AI是对人类尊严的威胁，大卫·杜曼(David Durman)，一位非神论的人文主义者，最近获得宗教豁免，在工作场所使用AI.
肯塔基大学行政官杜尔曼告诉TechCrunch，它以“人类福祉和繁荣为中心，无论是个人还是集体[......]，并恳求一个人努力改善其福祉和繁荣以及周围的其他人。”
当他目睹AI在日常生活中越来越受欢迎时，杜尔曼寻求美国人文主义协会(AHA)——一个非盈利性推进世俗人文主义的人文主义协会——来调查他如何能够获得法律保护而不必在工作中使用AI. 他认为使用这种技术违背他的信仰。
“我们为自己和他人成为道德行为者的方式是通过积极运用我们的思想，[通过人工智能的使用]削弱这种作用必然会对我们这样做的能力产生负面影响，”
杜尔曼在本周早些时候发表的一份声明中写道：“ AI正在干涉人们谋生的能力，环境成本给人类和地球带来灾难，它取代和窃取人类的创造力威胁到了我们文化中诸如艺术和文学等让社会蓬勃发展的元素。 ”
人文主义不是反宗教的，但它倾向于吸引那些对神或其他超自然力量持怀疑态度，但仍在寻求科学和道德框架来扎根的人。
“关于AI和人的尊严的共识可以贯穿于几种不同的信仰和传统，无论是天主教教义，还是世界主义，还是人文主义，我们希望人文主义者或非神论者知道他们属于这些类别——他们在工作中也受到法律的保护。”
杜尔曼是第一位确保工作场所住宿的人，允许他放弃AI的使用，也是最早公开讨论他们追求这些保护的人之一。 当他读到统一世界主义者和软件工程师艾琳·毛斯(Erin Maus)能够为自己获得类似的保护时，他受到启发寻求。
“对我来说，这是关于我和我的信念，”Durman 称。 “我显然不想告诉人们如何思考或感受。..... 但我确实希望，它鼓励有类似关切的人不一定要追求宗教豁免，而是尽其最大能力追求他们认为最适当的关切。”
肯塔基大学(University of Kentucky 发言人 Jay Blanton)告诉TechCrunch，该机构考虑到雇员的工作责任和申请的情况，逐一审查宗教住宿申请。
“在这种情况下，大学决定，在允许雇员继续履行其职务的基本职能的同时，可以提供住宿”,Blanton 称在一份声明中。 “随着技术和工作责任的发展，可以审查各种便利，以确保这些便利保持合理和可行。”
Maus的情况特别不同寻常，因为软件工程师在没有任何AI帮助的情况下写代码已经变得少见。 但是在杜尔曼的行政角色中，他支持申请补助金的研究人员，他并没有被要求在工作中使用AI. 同许多跨领域的工人一样，他的一些同事和领导建议雇员试用这些工具，因此他现在寻求获得豁免，以防该建议成为今后的任务。
“我希望，如果[其他人]有类似的感觉，他们感到鼓励寻求某种解决办法。” Durman 称。
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Pope Leo XIV has decried AI as a threat to human dignity, but it’s not just the devoutly faithful who might worry about how AI squares with their beliefs. David Durman, a nontheistic Humanist, recently secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
“Humanism is a collection of beliefs about the human experience and how humans interact with the world,” Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, told TechCrunch. It centers on “human well-being and flourishing, both individually and collectively […] and implores a person to try to improve both their well-being and their flourishing as well as the others around them.”
As he watched AI grow more popular in daily life, Durman sought out the American Humanist Association (AHA) — a nonprofit advancing secular humanism — to investigate how he could gain legal protections against having to use AI at work. He believes that using the technology runs counter to his beliefs.
“The way we become moral actors for ourselves and for others is through the active application of our minds, and the diminishing of that [through AI use] is going to necessarily have a negative impact on our ability to do so,” he said, reflecting on how overreliance on AI might affect critical thinking.
In a statement published by the AHA earlier this week, Durman wrote, “AI is interfering with people’s ability to earn a living, the environmental costs spell disaster for humanity and our planet, and its supplanting and theft of human creativity threaten elements of our culture like art and literature that make society flourish.”
Humanism is not anti-religious, but it tends to appeal to people who are skeptical of a god or other supernatural power yet still seek a scientific and moral framework to ground themselves in.
“Concern about AI and human dignity can run through several different faiths and traditions, whether that’s Catholic teachings, or Universalism, or Humanism, and we want Humanists or nontheists to know that they fall into these categories — that they are also protected by the law at work,” Alexandria Huiskens, Staff Attorney at the AHA, told TechCrunch.
Durman is the first Humanist to secure workplace accommodations that allow him to abstain from AI use, and one of the first people to publicly discuss their pursuit of these protections. He was inspired to seek them when he read that Erin Maus, a Unitarian Universalist and software engineer, was able to secure similar protections for herself.
“For me, this was about me and my convictions,” Durman said. “I’m obviously not trying to tell people how to think or feel… But I do hope that it encourages people who have similar concerns to pursue not necessarily religious exemption, but pursue their concerns to the best of their ability where they feel is the most appropriate.”
University of Kentucky spokesperson Jay Blanton told TechCrunch that the institution reviews requests for religious accommodations on an individual basis, considering the employee’s job responsibilities and the circumstances of the request.
“In this case, the university determined that an accommodation could be provided while allowing the employee to continue performing the essential functions of their position,” Blanton said in a statement. “As technology and job responsibilities evolve, accommodations may be reviewed to ensure they remain reasonable and workable.”
Maus’ situation is especially unusual, since it has become rare for software engineers to write code without any AI assistance. But in Durman’s administrative role, in which he supports researchers applying for grants, he has not been required to use AI at work. Like many workers across fields, some of his colleagues and leadership have recommended that employees try out these tools, so he sought to secure his exemption now, in case the suggestion becomes a mandate in the future.
“I hope that if [others] have similar feelings, that they feel encouraged to pursue some kind of resolution,” Durman said.
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