diff --git a/R/asJSON.AsIs.R b/R/asJSON.AsIs.R
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+setOldClass("AsIs")
+setMethod("asJSON", "AsIs", function(x, auto_unbox = FALSE, ...) {
+
+  # Strip off the AsIs class so we can dispatch to other asJSON methods.
+  class(x) <- setdiff(class(x), "AsIs")
+
+  if (is.atomic(x) && length(x) == 1) {
+    # Never auto_unbox single values when wrapped with I()
+    asJSON(x, auto_unbox = FALSE, ...)
+
+  } else {
+    asJSON(x, auto_unbox = auto_unbox, ...)
+  }
+})
diff --git a/inst/tests/test-toJSON-AsIs.R b/inst/tests/test-toJSON-AsIs.R
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+context("toJSON AsIs")
+
+test_that("Encoding AsIs", {
+  expect_that(toJSON(list(1), auto_unbox=TRUE), equals("[1]"));
+  expect_that(toJSON(list(I(1)), auto_unbox=TRUE), equals("[[1]]"));
+  expect_that(toJSON(I(list(1)), auto_unbox=TRUE), equals("[1]"));
+
+  expect_that(toJSON(list(x=1)), equals("{\"x\":[1]}"));
+  expect_that(toJSON(list(x=1), auto_unbox=TRUE), equals("{\"x\":1}"));
+  expect_that(toJSON(list(x=I(1)), auto_unbox=TRUE), equals("{\"x\":[1]}"));
+
+  expect_that(toJSON(list(x=I(list(1))), auto_unbox=TRUE), equals("{\"x\":[1]}"));
+  expect_that(toJSON(list(x=list(I(1))), auto_unbox=TRUE), equals("{\"x\":[[1]]}"));
+});