A university admin got a religious exemption from using AI at work: is this the next HR fight?

TechCrunch reports that David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace, and the piece notes you don't necessarily need to believe in a god to qualify. For those of us who sat through "AI-first" mandates and usage dashboards in big tech, this feels like the first real legal friction point. If you ran a team today, how would you handle an engineer who formally refuses to use AI tools, and should AI usage ever be a performance metric?