While the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in many workplaces, some employees are asking for religious accommodations to avoid using AI tools at work.
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In recent years, many business leaders have implemented new work protocols and performance metrics that require workers to use AI tools for certain job functions. At the same time, religious objections to workplace requirements or procedures are on the rise. One stark example involved a nearly $600,000 jury verdict upheld on appeal in favor of an evangelical Christian employee who objected to his employer’s biometric hand scanner on the grounds that it would imprint him with the “Mark of the Beast”—a symbol from the Book of Revelation associated with followers of the Antichrist—after the employer refused to offer him the same keypad alternative it had already made available to employees with hand injuries.
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