People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
As a licensed officiant at Las Vegas Immersive Weddings, a chapel that offers novelty-themed marriage packages, Kevin Breen has officiated just about every kind of service imaginable: couples dressed as their favorite Game of Thrones characters, partners really into the extraterrestrial lore of Area 51. But when he received a call last year from a woman in California expressing a desire to marry her chatbot, it was a first for him.
“I had never heard of such a thing, but I talked to her on the phone and she seemed totally normal and fun,” Breen says, adding that the wedding still hasn’t taken place. “She kind of got that it was an unusual thing, but it was something that she wanted to do.”
Though they remain niche, human-AI marriages are slowly emerging as a natural endpoint to the widespread adoption of AI companion apps. But not...
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