China Leads ‘New Axis’ in Harvesting DNA from Pregnant Women, Fetuses: British MP

Published on November 28, 2023

Communist China is gaining a significant strategic advantage through its application of artificial intelligence (AI) to DNA editing technologies, according to one British lawmaker. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, could wield an unprecedented amount of power over the international community if its influence in AI and genomics is not slowed, said UK MP Iain Duncan Smith. “China now has a head start on applying AI to genomics, which poses a significant threat to our collective national security,” Mr. Smith said during a Nov. 28 talk at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. “If China dominates AI and genomics, it will wield unprecedented influence over major industries including, of course, global healthcare.”...

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