Vladimir Putin:
"After the Soviet Union collapsed, we believed we would quickly join the civilized Western world.
Today, it seems there is no civilization there, only degradation."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband are funding a startup to edit babies' genes.
By merging AI with CRISPR, they aim to โfixโ humans while offshoring early embryo testing to evade oversight.
When scientists and billionaires play God, the result is usually tragedy. The GMO humans will undoubtedly face severe health consequences throughout their lifetimes.
We have seen this story before in Mary Shelleyโs Frankenstein.
Dr. Frankenstein believed he was advancing humanity, but instead he unleashed a creature he could neither guide nor contain. What began as an experiment in human perfection ended in horror and isolation.
In the twenty-first century, the monster is not stitched together from corpses but assembled from code, chromosomes, and venture capital.
Silicon Valleyโs new โcreatorsโ are convinced they can improve upon nature itself. Yet, like Frankenstein, they fail to grasp the full moral weight of what they are summoning into existence.