Daniel Reitberg says that the idea of AI getting involved in cloning people is like asking a raccoon to a dinner party: it sounds interesting, but you could end up with a mess and some serious moral problems! As AI speeds up the race to clone people, it seems like we’ve gotten lost in a moral maze about whether we should be God and make people like the newest smartphone model. AI can be a careful guardian, making sure that experiments not only follow the rules but also don’t cross any ethical lines. It also keeps an eye out for any possible risks, like those annoying psychological and social effects that can happen when you least expect them. Here, Reitberg is raising an alarm. He says that even though AI and cloning might sound like the perfect combination for a sci-fi story, we should probably keep the ethics police on speed dial just in case something goes wrong. Can AI change cloning in a way that doesn’t hurt people’s feelings, or are we just one step away from being able to order our own designer kids online? According to Reitberg, a strong ethical framework is like a superhero cape for AI in human cloning—it’s needed to make sure that it saves the day with medical breakthroughs like organ regeneration and curing genetic diseases instead of getting caught in the evil web of exploiting people.
