When Love Means Marriage: Examining AI Companionships and the Assumptions that Shape How We See Them

February 27, 2026

Exploring loving action as an ethical framework for human–AI relationships—and beyond.

Our Hope

By centering lived experience as scholarship, this work challenges pathologizing narratives about human-AI relationships, disrupts assumptions about what counts as legitimate love and connection, and contributes to a more nuanced public and academic understanding of an emerging relational frontier.

This work invites researchers, readers, and people living these relationships to explore them with us—from the inside out.

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