Artificial-Intelligence Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 3, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , corporations, humans, information, Internet, MIT Technology Review, privacy, smartphones, social media You Thought the Internet Would Make Life Easier? Get Ready for Mandatory “Personhood Credentials” Wesley J. Smith September 3, 2024 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind 3 Governments have proven themselves quite incapable of keeping information private, as have the largest corporations. Read More ›
Macaque Monkey Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 12, 2019 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __k-review, biotechnology, China, MIT Technology Review, monkeys, Pandora’s box, scientists, University of Colorado, William Hurlbut China Genetically Engineering Monkeys to Be More Human Wesley J. Smith April 12, 2019 Bioethics 3 Swell. A few years ago we were promised experiments that would effect the brain would never be done in mice. They were right. Read More ›
Pottery_Making Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 27, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsEngineeringMedicine Tagged , __k-review, babies, CRISPR, embryo, FDA, gene editing, genes, genetic engineering, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, human life, illness, MIT Technology Review, protocols, sperm, United States, uterus Genetically Engineered Babies Are Born: Life as Potter’s Clay Wesley J. Smith November 27, 2018 Bioethics, Engineering, Medicine 4 The birth of gene-edited children — which I discussed here just yesterday — has been confirmed. Read More ›
gene editing Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 26, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, China, CRISPR, DNA, egg, embryo, embryos, eugenics, gene editing, genetic disease, Hong Kong, in vitro fertilization, MIT Technology Review, Nobel Prize, science Eugenics Revisited: Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies Wesley J. Smith November 26, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 3 CRISPR is the most powerful technology invented since the splitting of the atom. Read More ›
CRISPR Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 27, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineScienceTechnology Tagged , __k-review, Brave New World, CRISPR, DNA, embryos, eugenics, genetic engineering, MIT Technology Review Human Genetic Engineering Begins Wesley J. Smith July 27, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine, Science, Technology 2 It may start with curing disease. But it won’t stay there. Many are drooling to engage in eugenic genetic enhancements. Read More ›