Nicolas Hulscher, MPH on Silicon Valley: “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband are funding a startup …”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband are funding a startup to edit babies' genes. By merging AI with CRISPR, they aim to “fix” 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 Shelley’s 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 Valley’s new “creators” 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.