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“We don't need AI in every gadget, we don't need CRISPR in every baby. We don't need to abandon tech and live in caves, but that's what will happen if we keep using tech haphazardly.”

Technology Innovation Artificial Intelligence Engineering Eugenics Genetic Engineering Generative Ai Ethical Ai Ethics And Science Gene Editing

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“We don't need AI in every gadget, we don't need CRISPR in every baby.”

Technology Innovation Artificial Intelligence Engineering Eugenics Genetic Engineering Generative Ai Ethical Ai Ethics And Science Gene Editing

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I'd recently co-founded an institute in the Bay Area called the Innovative Genomics Institute (ICI) with the goal of advancing gene-editing technologies.”

Advancing Gene Editing

Book:A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Source: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

“human gene editing would almost assuredly never have the same catastrophic consequences as the detonation of a nuclear weapon”

Weapon Gene Editing

Book:A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Source: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

“Wilson has observed, "We are not as gods. We're not yet sentient or intelligent enough to be much of anything." Paul Kingsnorth, a British writer and activist, has put it this way: "we are as gods, but we have failed to get good at it.. We are Loki, killing the beautiful for fun. We are Saturn, devouring our children... Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.”

Nature Gene Editing

Book:Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Source: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

“PGD has also been used for other controversial purposes, such as the birth if so-called savior siblings, destined from the moment of implantation not only to live their own lives, but also to serve as organ or cell donors for a sibling.”

Science Gene Editing Controversial Purposes

Book:A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Source: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.”

Ethics Gene Editing Bioethics Moral Perspective

Book:A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Source: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

“All the wonderful things in the world. All the ways life was better even if the world wasn't. This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops.”

Technology Environment Innovation Environmental Degradation Disasters Natural Disasters Gene Editing Driverless Cars Led Lights

Book:Hummingbird Salamander

Source: Hummingbird Salamander

“We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wondrous civilization. But paradoxically- tragically- our creation's complexity had now far outstripped our brains' ability to manage it.”

Climate Change Apocalypse Dystopian Dystopia Upgrade Gene Editing Blake Crouch

Book:Upgrade

Source: Upgrade