[ExI] crisper children

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2015-11-12 14:24, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
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>     The current hype about CRISPR gene editing is causing a lot of
>     discussion among the ethics thinkers.
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> ### I am an ethics thinker and I endorse CRISPER (if done with proper 
> liability insurance).
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Professional bioethicists are indeed debating the topic. See for example 
this week's Nature, 
http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-a-path-through-the-thicket-1.18748 
which recounts some fairly moderate and sensible recommendations (I know 
a few of the authors). The tricky part is not whether one endorses the 
technology, but how one explains why a particular application is a good 
one to the rest of society, funding bodies, and legal professionals. It 
is not enough to have an opinion, one needs to express it well too.

Rafals original question: I roughly agree with the guess, but I put a 
fairly broad confidence interval around the dates, especially late 
dates. This is an application that like gene therapy could get delayed 
by 15 years just by an early setback.


-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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