I would argue that our human dignity is the precursor for ethics and that
the artificial creation of living, thinking organisms must take into account the dignity of those created.
The new laboratory thriller Splice, opening this Friday, revisits a subject long dear to science fiction:
the artificial creation of life.
Not exact matches
At bottom,
artificial intelligence is the
creation of a race, after all — a race
of living breathing tin men, or, more to the point, a
creation that can later do the
creation for us.
It is the same when the
artificial creation of a human cell is considered: «Nothing more than reproducing those conditions in which under the Law
of Control and Direction,
life emerges.»
This new approach to manipulating
life — along with explorations
of artificial DNA, the
creation of novel amino acids, and controlled evolution in the lab — has been dubbed synthetic biology, and Keasling, 42, is one
of its chief engineers.