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Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work
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IIRC, the war didn't start because AI started killing humans. It started because humans opposed AI replacing them. There was a religious sect (Butlarians) who opposed this, and they eventually rose up to fight the machines. They weren't directly attacked first.