Tenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Selecting genes to enhance the natural characteristics of the future generations is now a palpable choice. Respect for private life demands that all humans are free to establish their life project, assuming their identity, integrity and autonomy, without any form of manipulation, including their genetic heritage. However, on the other side, the reproductive autonomy claims for the ambition to guarantee the better characteristics science can provide our offspring enhancing the opportunities that may reasonably aspire including in a future society where humans are inhabiting with the beings of AI. It is imperative to weight the risks/benefits in a new world. It is essential a balanced composition of the conflicting interests in this frontier debate where human nature and human dignity lay at risk. We are at the absolute threshold of human creation so, therefore, this is a moment of distress, and the shift from human nature to post-human nature, as Buchanan puts it. We have analyzed the issue, first in an ethical perspective. We have also analyzed the perspective of the human rights and the different interests and perspectives in conflict, connecting the issue to the key role of AI technology to the discussion. Ethical principles should be established and a regulation for the use of biotechnology is imperative built around universal consensus. We have concluded that a regulatory framework is imperative, with well-defined ethical principles, to protect human rights in an inter-generational perspective and provide a sustainable society where human beings are the first and last reference.