Little problem…for good reasons, editing the germ line of a human is illegal in most countries. But now that Nazism is cool again, why not go full Mengele. Secondly, this is somehow better than pre-implantation genetic diagnosis? That’s >30 years old, it allows to only implant embryos free of genetic disease. Stops the disease in future generations forever, without the error rates of gene editing.
What do they consider a genetic disease? Brown eyes and hair?
Why is this “dystopic?” Isn’t working toward eliminating diseases one of the things people keep demanding that billionaires and AI companies should be doing with their resources?
The devil is in the details. Are benevolent actors doing it, or are folks just trying to install DRM into gene sequences.
The details are quite clear, even in this article. They’re targeting genetic diseases.
Oh? Well, that’s good then. It’s safely in the hands of benevolent people and therefore impervious to abuse by bad actors, forever.
This is just whitewashing eugenics.
If he said they were trying to create a super race, everyone we would be up in arms.
But when they frame it as trying to cure babies, they get away with a lot more.
There is a reason this is illegal in the US and UK.
It’s not illegal in US. The FDA will not approve it, the NIH will not fund it, but a private company can do it. There is no federal legislation that dictates protocols or restrictions.
It’s absolutely illegal in other countries, including China.
Many people consider genetically engineered humans to be dystopic on it’s own.
I hope the world blows up instantly via giant meteor. Asap.
Can we speed this up? I’m tired of being old, fat, and bald.
