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Marchant Publishes Article in Slate on Robots and Marriage

Slate robots & marriageIn A.I. Thee Wed, ASU Regents’ Professor of Law, Gary Marchant provides compelling pop culture, technological and historical examples of the progression of recognized and evolving social mores and legal rights that might one day include accepted and sanctioned human-robot marriages.  While we are not likely to witness this phenomenon for a long time to come, Marchant examines and brings to light the possibility, noting from the recent Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing same-sex marriage, “the issue comes down to the “fundamental right” of a person in a free society to choose the nature of the relationships and lifestyle they choose to pursue, providing they do not unreasonably harm others in exercising their choices.”