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The chapter evaluates whether autonomy-centered marital logic can justify extending marital status to non-human companions, and argues that doing so produces socially unjust outcomes even under optimistic assumptions about reliable superintelligence. Marriage is treated as a socio-legal institution that creates networks of mutual obligation, family linkage, and partner vulnerability. Rights should be targeted to intimate human-AI needs rather than wholesale marital status.","arXiv :2607 .00120v1 [ cs .CY] 30 Jun 2026  \nWould You Marry Superintelligence?  \nInyoung Cheong  \nAbstract  \nEmotional bonds between humans and AI companions are growing, and the question of whether a person may marry an AI system will soon move from speculative fiction into law. This chapter examines whether the autonomy-centered logic that has expanded marital choice among human beings can justify extending marital status to superintelligent companions. Following a scenario-envisioning exercise informed by anticipatory ethics, I argue that granting such status leads to socially unjust outcomes, even under the generous assumption of reliable superintelligence. Marriage as a socio-legal institution does more than ratify private agreement; it creates networks of mutual obligation, joins families, and makes each partner vulnerable to the other. A relationship sustained by corporate policy and continued payments is a subscription rather than a bond tested by time. Discussing wholesale marital status is therefore the wrong frame. Law should carve out targeted rights and protections for pressing needs arising from intimate human-AI relationships.  \nKeywords: Human-AI relationships, AI companionship, AI personhood, Marriage law, AI governance, Emotional attachment, Surveillance capitalism  \nMarriage is the foundation of the family and of society, without which there would be neither civilization nor progress .  \nMaynard v. Hill, 125 U.S. 190, 211 (1888) .  \nI Introduction  \nDo individuals have a right to marry anyone they choose? And should society honor that right even when the chosen partner is a machine?  \nI expect readers to split into two camps on these questions. The dismissive camp will find them laughable. How can anyone take a machine seriously asa life partner? The very idea sounds like science fiction, too far-fetched to merit serious discussion. The permissive camp will find them outdated and anthropocentric. If marrying a machine is what makes someone happy, why should society stand in the way?  \nBoth reactions, though, treat the question as settled before it has been examined. One assumes that attachment to a machine is too absurd to warrant analysis; the other assumes that attachment alone is reason enough to extend legal recognition. Neither is right. Emotional bonds between humans and machines are already forming, and they will only deepen. Current AI companions have glitches that are hard to ignore, such as hallucinations and abrupt memory losses, but those glitches will iron out.  \nStill, no matter how many sympathetic cases accumulate, extending a social institution for familial relationships to machines demands serious moral and legal inquiry. The discussion belongs to this moment. Machines are advancing rapidly, and the number of people deeply attached to them will keep rising. Without deliberate speculation now, the default is to let technology set the pace while familiar legal analogies stretch to absorb each new development. “Why not?” becomes the reflexive reaction, sliding into acquiescence. Asking “what if”is how societies exercise moral reasoning and set boundaries before technology has generated enough demand to force the question.  \nMarriage in this chapter refers to the bundle of legal rights the state confers on a recognized partnership, including medical decision-making authority, spousal privilege in legal proceedings, inheritance without a will, and joint economic and property status. This chapter focuses on whether the state should extend marriage’s legal status to human-AI companions, setting aside both the societal question of tolerance and the philosophical question of whether such bonds constitute marriage in a deeper sense. The argument draws on anticipatory AI ethics, reasoning from plausible near-future capabilities rather than present limitations.1  \n1Anticipatory AI ethics reasons from projected futures rather than present conditions, identifying specific hazards and intervention points","cbCaibrprpnQnplj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibrprpnQnplj","pdf",185470,2,1,22,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Marriage as a Matter of Choice\n## Marriage as a Matter of Choice and Community Recognition\n# Marriage’s Legal Extension to Human-AI Companions\n## Anticipatory Ethics and Superintelligence Assumptions\n## Social Risks and Social Injustice","[{\"question\":\"What central question does the chapter ask about human-AI marriage?\",\"answer\":\"Whether individuals have a right to marry anyone they choose, and whether society should honor that right when the chosen partner is a machine.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the chapter argue that extending marriage to superintelligent companions is socially 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