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Breakpoint

Messing with Imago Dei

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, Culture, Christianity, Currentevents, Worldview, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Is “baby optimization” unscientific and immoral? 

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Breakpoint Forum: The Perils and Promise of Artificial Intelligence

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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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Should we optimize human beings? Well, that was the question Anna Louise Sussman addressed

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recently in the New York

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Times, describing a new process that allows fertility services to bring only the healthiest,

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least disease-prone children into the world. It's called polygenic embryo screening, and it uses

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AI to find genes that have statistical correlations to disorders like diabetes, autism, heart disease,

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