A union between human and machine? Not on this Ohio Republican’s watch.

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 “nonsentient entities,” NBC4 News reports. It would also mean that AIs wouldn’t be able to marry a human or another AI.

“As 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,” Claggett, who chairs Ohio’s House Technology and Innovation Committee, told NBC4 in a new interview.

Marriage can grant humans legal powers over other people. Claggett argues the bill will help stop AI from assuming the roles held by

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