{"id":5893,"date":"2025-10-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ohio-ban-ai-marriage\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:00:00","slug":"ohio-ban-ai-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ohio-ban-ai-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A union between human and machine? Not on this Ohio Republican\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n

A bill introduced last month by Buckeye state representative Thaddeus Claggett, from Licking County, would block AI systems from having legal personhood by declaring them to be \u201cnonsentient entities,\u201d NBC4 News <\/em>reports<\/a>. It would also mean that AIs wouldn\u2019t be able to marry a human or another AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the computer systems improve in their capacity to act more like humans, we want to be sure we have prohibitions in our law that prohibit those systems from ever being human in their agency,\u201d Claggett, who chairs Ohio\u2019s House Technology and Innovation Committee, told NBC4<\/em> in a new interview.<\/p>\n

Marriage can grant humans legal powers over other people. Claggett argues the bill will help stop AI from assuming the roles held by spouses, like having power of attorney, or making financial or medical decisions on another\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople need to understand, we\u2019re not talking about marching down the aisle to some tune and having a ceremony with the robot that\u2019ll be on our streets here in a year or two,\u201d Claggett said. \u201cThat could happen, but that\u2019s not really what we\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Various people have claimed<\/a> to marry<\/a> AI chatbots \u2014 even sometimes with elaborate mock weddings<\/a> \u2014 but there\u2019s no legal recognition of the unions, making it a bit unclear what Claggett\u2019s bill is supposed to accomplish.<\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s plenty of reason to be worried about how humans are developing relationships with AI models. Popular chatbots are capable of being eerily lifelike, effortlessly playing along with any conversation they\u2019re thrown into. Often, the AI responses are sycophantic, confirming a human\u2019s beliefs no matter how unfounded, and creating an impression that they\u2019re actually alive or intelligent.\u00a0That makes them quite adept at wrapping lonely sad sacks around their fingers. A recent survey<\/a>, for example, indicated that nearly a third of US adults said they\u2019ve had an \u201cintimate or romantic\u201d relationship with an AI chatbot.<\/p>\n

Making matters worse, AI chatbots frequently go off the rails<\/a> and say stuff they\u2019re not supposed to. The consequences of this can be extreme. Psychiatrists are growing increasingly concerned<\/a> with reports of so-called \u201cAI psychosis,\u201d a term that describes alarming mental health episodes where a user suffers severe delusions and breaks with reality after becoming obsessed with a chatbot. Some of these episodes have ended in suicide<\/a> and murder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marriage isn\u2019t the only thing Claggett\u2019s trying to outlaw for AIs. If the bill were to be passed, AIs would be banned from owning or controlling real estate, intellectual property, or financial accounts, per NBC4<\/em>. It would also ban them from serving in a management, director, or officer role at companies, and pin the harm caused by an AI system on its human owners or creators.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public needs to understand the extreme risk,\u201d Claggett told NBC4<\/em>. \u201cBecause of the way this stuff is moving so rapidly, in Ohio, we have a number of bills before our technology committee that [are] attempting to put some guardrails in place so that we always have a human in charge of the technology, not the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Mourning Women Say OpenAI Killed Their AI Boyfriends<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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