Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work
(www.tomshardware.com)
And just like that I wasn’t an atheist.
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I've never thought of humanism as a religion (and still don't, frankly) but fuck yeah.
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Using AI should not be mandatory to begin with.
I’m a Butlarian, myself.
The jokes about starting some random religion aside, it really isn’t that far fetched that being steadfastly anti AI includes enough values and beliefs about the world to form some sort of religion. Maybe weak on metaphysical beliefs, but again, leaning a bit more in that direction from an anti AI position seems pretty natural.
Humanism, naturalism and whatever you want to call it, if averting from the tech industry’s latest “progress” is non-secular, then let that be a religion.
That's not true. The first exemption from AI on religious grounds was a Unitarian universalist (another secular, values based religious organization), back in June.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/religious-exemption-ai-work
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Hallelujah
Did I hear an Amen?
A traumatic brain injury is usually a disqualifying factor for work dependent on intellectual competency.
R’amen
Well that's dumb. Not because we should welcome AI, but because AI is a program that runs numbers from one end of a model to the other. It looks like it is "thinking", but it is not. Input the same token and you will get the exact same set of other tokens as an output every single time. We just perceive thinking because AIs use randomness to select which of the output tokens to feed back into the next iteration of the same process. So if religion is an excuse not to use it, then this person has no place using a computer at all.
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