What about designer babies and gene editing?

Gene editing gives us real power to prevent disease, and designer babies are the dark side of the same tool. CRISPR, the technology that lets scientists cut and rewrite DNA like a text editor, already delivered the first approved cure: Casgevy for sickle cell disease, approved in 2023. I predict real medical benefit alongside serious ethical danger around enhancement and selection. The same tool that eliminates an inherited disease can also write inequality into DNA, and China already jailed the scientist who edited the first babies in 2018. I am firm. The governance conversation cannot lag the science, because once this genie escapes, it does not go back.