COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio lawmaker wants to prohibit artificial intelligence systems from being recognized as people and make it illegal for residents to marry one.

Rep. Thaddeus Claggett, a Licking County Republican and chair of the House Technology and Innovation Committee, introduced House Bill 469 in late September. The legislation would declare AI systems “nonsentient entities” and ban them from gaining legal personhood.

“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,” he said in an interview with NBC4.

The proposal seeks to bar the technology from entering a marriage with a human or another AI system. Claggett said this will help p

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