National Intelligence Council Report warns that genetic engineering poses unprecedented threat to the world

‘Values-based disagreements over genetic engineering are likely to be a major source of conflict between states in the coming decades, warns a recent report from the National Intelligence Council.
“How people think about the very nature of life and how people love and hate is likely to be challenged by major technological advances in understanding and efforts to manipulate human anatomy, which will spark strong divisions between people, country, and regions,” the report reads.
The National Intelligence Council provides long-term strategic analysis for the U.S. intelligence community and the Director of National Intelligence.
The more advanced the technologies of genetic engineering and human bodily modification become, the less likely that different nations will be able to find common ground, the report says.’
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