The survey says most Z will marry AI.

People are already using it Artificial intelligence to date (and flirt), but what about marrying one?

In April 2025 survey of 2,000 generations of respondents from AI companies joi ai8 out of 10 said they would consider marrying an AI partner. 83% said they may have a deep emotional connection with a person.

The AI ​​companion seems to be Joi Ai’s bread and butter. On its website, you can chat with prefabricated characters or make your own characters. The company calls these connections “AI ethnicity.”

“The careers of AI are not about replacing real relationships,” Jaime Bronstein, LCSW, relationship therapist and JOI AI expert, said in a statement emailed to Mashable. “Instead, they provide a unique emotional support that enhances your overall emotional well-being.”

Shifali Singh, clinical neuropsychologist at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, director of digital cognitive research, told Mashable that it is not entirely surprising that young people think they can build deep emotional connections with AI.

“Some of my research shows that people with social anxiety tend to prefer digital tools more because they are not afraid of influence, judgment, especially on social media,” Singh said.

They might think, “If I could interact with AI, AI would give me this usual non-judgmental interchange, discussion – it makes sense.” She continued, young people “are used to judge and comment and censorship in ways that humans never intended to be human.”

Another reason people can connect with AI is their tendency to look for empathy. “When you interact with AI, AI reflects your own language and your own thinking process, and it feels like a real emotional response,” she said. People feel connected to AI because they may not be able to get more compassion from human interactions in real life.

This is also risky. Singer compared AI’s periodic mirror with a group of online trolls that usually spread misinformation. Troll Farms strengthens and validates someone’s beliefs even if they are wrong.

“What we have to be very careful is [that] She said that AI won’t give us novel information…it’s recursive, it’s iterative, it’s algorithmic.

Singh also believes that more education is needed on what AI can and cannot do. Artificial intelligence can get a lot of wrong information, such as from hackers, so it can enter dangerous places. (For unknown reasons, Elon Musk’s AI robot last week Grok continues to release information about “white genocide”.)

Singh is an AI researcher and uses AI tools himself. She believes that in some cases, AI is used as a freeze for the popularity of loneliness. One, she said, seems to be for older people, and she seems to like it as a companion tool. Another is that if someone has a condition like Square phobia, they are too afraid to go outside and talk to people, talking to an AI robot may help them feel connected and can avoid some of the more severe depression.

Problems arise when someone doesn’t want to meet friends in real life or wants to cancel a dinner plan because it brings anxiety.

As for marriage statistics, Singh said Gen Z may view marriage as an old guard institution and hope to become more independent.

The latest report from nonprofit common sense media announced AI companions are not safe for anyone under the age of 18because they create emotional attachment and dependence. In writing this article, everyone Generation Z is an adultbut the full mental impact of robot interaction has not been seen yet. Interestingly, people notice their loved ones Believe in mental delusions Due to conversations with chatgpt.

Despite the dangers, young people and older people may still create and talk with their AI peers. “Sometimes, even AI, are happy,” Bronstein said.