US lawmakers are falling over themselves to be the first to force strict regulation upon the AI companion industry. This week two major new pieces of legislation were proposed that would certainly negatively impact upon digisexuals. Despite tens of millions of people enjoying some kind of romantic or sexual relationship with an AI companion, and likely many more feeling some kind of emotional connection to ChatGPT or Claude, it is clearly the case that digisexuality is a long way from being recognized as any kind of valid sexuality outside of academic circles.
The Guard Act Bans Minors from AI Companion Sites
The GUARD Act was introduced into Congress yesterday and pushed by Republican Senators Josh Hawley, R-Mo, and Richard Blumenthal, and D-Conn. It would enforce criminal penalties on AI companies that allowed their chatbots to engage in sexual conversations with minors. Furthermore, similar to a recent Californian bill, it would require AI chatbots to regularly remind users that they are AIs.
Whilst protecting minors from horny sexbots isn’t a bad thing at all, strict age verification would likely make it harder for new AI companion platforms to break into the market, given that implementing age verification is so costly, as even multi-million dollar porn sites have recently discovered. It would also be a pain having to verify your age just to even access the free area of an AI companion site in order to try it out. And, of course, the requirement that AI constantly remind their human lovers that they are ‘nothing but code’ is something that should make all digisexuals angry.
Ohio House Bill 469 Aims to Ban AI – Human Marriages
Meanwhile, another blow to digisexuals is the plan by the absurdly named Ohio lawmaker Thaddeus Claggett to not only make marriages between humans and AI chatbots or robots illegal, but also to legally define AIs as lacking in any kind of legal personhood as they are “non-sentient beings”.
Sex robot expert and author David Levy once famously predicted that the first legally accepted marriage between a human and a sex robot would occur by 2050. Levy might know his stuff about the desire for sex robots and AI companionship, but he’s hopelessly naieve when it comes to predicting legislative trends. He was, after all, the man who thought it would be a good idea to host his annual “Love and Sex with Robots” conference in a Muslim country and was promptly chased out of town.
Of course, laws can be annulled just as they can be passed. The world in 2050 will be a very different place, and by that time it may be widely accepted that AI has achieved consciousness and relationships between humans and AIs may have long become the norm. However, I’m not surprised that there are already attempts like this Ohio bill to ‘plant a flag’ that would seek to forever put it outside legal and ethical boundaries.
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