Damn, this is an INTERESTING question.

Via USA Today, the pope’s official statement on AI could cause some Conscientious Objector cases in workplaces.

James Paul, a labor and employment litigator with the law firm Ogletree Deakins, told USA TODAY he is “bracing himself” for an influx of religious accommodation cases related to AI because of the comments. …”People are drawing the line at one particular thing when, wait a minute, you’ve been using a car that is probably using some type of AI technology, smartphone, personal computers, any electricity these days potentially is causing an impact on the environment,” Paul said. “An employee has to show that they truly believe this, that they’re complying with whatever rules they’re laying out in their day-to-day life, and it’s pretty hard.”

Sounds like the CO situation in the Vietnam war. CO was damned hard to prove. Amish could get the exemption because they unquestionably lived their beliefs to the hilt. Most people (including me) took other paths because most people objected to this specific unjust war, not all wars.

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Big question: If the CO movement grows large and troublesome, will Anthropic regret hiring Leo as its celebrity influencer? Or did they hire him to split the opposition? Some people (including me) have so much distaste for Rome that they might be inclined to favor AI to spite the Romans.