I can’t see any problems here. It’s not like there’s a famous novel about why this is a terrible idea or a movie about it with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.
The idea of intelligence being a static property of a person is already known to be wrong. And IQ is not the same as intelligence. The idea that there’s one number to put to how smart a person is needs to die.
Hmm. Do we have sufficient information in – and understanding of – DNA to reliably predict IQ?
We can definitely screen for some things, genetic diseases and such. I’m just a little skeptical of the our ability to say “this is what the IQ of this embryo will be”.
Maybe their whole service doesn’t do any testing at all, it just auto sends a reply “We’re sorry, we think there is a strong chance your child will inherit genes related to lower than average intelligence.” to anyone dumb enough to pay them money.
