The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.
Real regulation is long overdue. But consumer protection is not enough.
The Alabama IVF ruling reveals peculiar entities that are neither people nor property until we need them to be.
Queasy about lab-grown meat? Too bad — you’ve pretty much been eating it for decades.
Good news: The agonizing moral quandary of “designer babies” has been resolved. But will scientists accept democracy’s verdict?
Symposium | Winter 2004
Winter 2004
Special Report | Summer 2015
Summer 2015
Three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships.
The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself.