Would you agree to a test that determines which of all your fertilized embryos in vitro would grow up as the smartest person? 40% of respondents for research published in the journal Science they acknowledged yes.
The second question went further: Did would genetically modify if that would guarantee the same goal? Three out of ten also gave the go-ahead.
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Although anticipating the intellectual development of a baby is not officially on the menu of companies in the field, some like the American Genomic prediction already commercialize tests that allow knowing the probability that a child will develop common diseases, such as schizophrenia either diabetes.
For now it is difficult to demonstrate that these tests work effectively. Decades may pass before verification that a newborn’s health risk has been accurately predicted, the journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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But the tests being accurate would also pose a problem, as they would have the potential to aggravate inequalities, for example, if only people from certain socioeconomic groups used them to have taller or more intelligent offspring. “It’s not something that’s going to be equally accessible to everyone,” says one of the study’s authors, bioethics professor Michelle Meyer.
Despite everything, forecasts suggest that these tests will become more extensive and massive. As the multiple platforms of artificial intelligencetechnology advances first and questions later.
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