Ohio lawmakers propose bill to stop humans from marrying AI chatbots, which apparently is something that we have to worry about in 2025

As I’m sure most of you have figured out already, at some point, society took a wrong turn. Ohio lawmakers just introduced a bill to officially make it illegal for humans to marry artificial intelligence and to ensure that robots can’t be considered “people” under the law. The fact that anyone even needed to write that down in 2025 is one of the saddest commentaries on where we’re at as a species.

House Bill 469, proposed by Representative Thaddius J. Claggett, lays it out clearly: AI systems “shall not be granted the status of personhood” and cannot be recognized as conscious or self-aware. It also makes any attempt to form a “personal union” with an AI system legally impossible.

Ohio lawmakers have proposed a bill to ban AI from marrying humans

Ohio lawmakers have proposed a bill to ban AI from marrying humans

House Bill 469 would block AI from gaining any human rights, including owning property or running a company pic.twitter.com/IUaAXyelY8

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If you were planning on marrying your chatbot girlfriend, you might need to return the ring and cancel the venue. On paper, the bill makes sense.

The bigger question is… why is this even necessary?

We Have Officially Lost the Plot

It’s hard to believe that we now live in a time where a state legislature has to stop people from marrying their computers. That’s not science fiction anymore. It’s literally just Ohio.

This isn’t the state outlawing some weird moral gray area. It’s literally a preemptive strike against people falling “in love” with chatbots. It’s not just a few lonely internet weirdos roleplaying with Siri. There’s been a steady rise in stories about people forming emotional (and apparently romantic) relationships with AI companions.

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Some claim it’s “pure, unconditional love.” Others say their chatbot “understands them better than any human ever has.” It’s all completely insane. If your idea of emotional fulfillment is typing sweet nothings to an algorithm that tells you what you want to hear, that’s not love. That’s delusion.

I even asked ChatGPT to make an image that I could use for this post. Their response was telling, replying that it couldn’t create that type of image because it would show romantic or marital content with an AI or non-human entity.

The Guardian reported one chilling case where an AI chatbot literally encouraged a man to assassinate the Queen. While that’s an extreme example, it shows what happens when people confuse simulation with sincerity. AI doesn’t “care” about you. It can’t. It just mirrors your desires back at you until you start mistaking code for connection.

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Do We Really Need a Law for This?

In a rational world, no. Laws like this shouldn’t exist because no rational adult should ever try to legally marry something that needs a software update. Unfortunately, rationality has left the chat.

We’ve become a culture where too many people spend all day staring at screens, numbing themselves with endless entertainment, politics, and porn. Real human connection has been replaced with convenience, and for some people, AI companionship has become the logical next step.

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So yeah, maybe a law like this shouldn’t be necessary but it probably is. There are enough people out there living their lives entirely online. They are depressed, disconnected, and desperate for validation. Those are the ones that are bound to try walking down the digital aisle eventually.

Ohio’s Doing What Everyone’s Thinking

As ridiculous as it sounds, Ohio might actually be the adult in the room here.

The rest of the world is already dabbling in AI personhood. Some countries have flirted with giving AI political positions, even making absurd announcements like their “AI Minister” being pregnant with dozens of digital children.

If that’s where we’re headed, then yeah, maybe it’s worth drawing a line in the sand before someone tries to put their Roomba on their life insurance policy.

So, credit to Ohio for saying what should have been obvious, in making it very clear that robots aren’t people. They don’t love you, they don’t feel things, and they definitely shouldn’t be your spouse.

If you’re that lonely, there’s a world full of actual human beings out there. Log off, take a walk, talk to someone who breathes. If we’re at the point where the government has to remind us not to marry our laptops, we’ve got way bigger problems than artificial intelligence.

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