Engineer Got a Religious Exemption From AI Mandate and Went Back to Coding by Hand

Bosses spent two years screaming that every keystroke must run through a chatbot, and one engineer found the escape hatch hiding in the Civil Rights Act. Erin Maus, a 34-year-old software engineer at a North Carolina tech-entertainment company and a Unitarian Universalist, argued in April that AI conflicted with her religious beliefs over environmental and ethical concerns, and in mid-May her employer granted the accommodation. She told Business Insider she is writing and reviewing her code by hand, which she admits sounds crazy to say. One startup founder noted the funniest outcome of the mandate era is HR departments discovering that sincerely held religious belief under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed. The AI was always optional, the threats were the product, and a church minister just proved it. Futurism on the religious exemption