There are at least two companies in the US alone already doing pre-implantation screening for polygenic disease risk right now, and one of them is offering screening for unusually low IQ already. It’s not that big of a stretch to imagine that parents will want to actively screen for IQ or other important traits in the next decade.
There are no legal barriers to embryo selection for intelligence. There may be some put up at some point in the future (which is a source of worry for me), but the current barriers are technological, not legal.
There was a survey done in Singapore and 87% of parents said they would be willing to intervene genetically to make their children smarter if the option was available. Attitudes in Korea are similar. If worse comes to worse I’ll just work for a company or in a lab somewhere that hasn’t banned it.
There are at least two companies in the US alone already doing pre-implantation screening for polygenic disease risk right now, and one of them is offering screening for unusually low IQ already. It’s not that big of a stretch to imagine that parents will want to actively screen for IQ or other important traits in the next decade.
There are no legal barriers to embryo selection for intelligence. There may be some put up at some point in the future (which is a source of worry for me), but the current barriers are technological, not legal.
There was a survey done in Singapore and 87% of parents said they would be willing to intervene genetically to make their children smarter if the option was available. Attitudes in Korea are similar. If worse comes to worse I’ll just work for a company or in a lab somewhere that hasn’t banned it.
Embryo selection is a weak form of genetic engineering though, literally just restricting certain rolls from a die.
This is not how you get someone with a 1000 iq, its how you make 130 iq more common.