The fetus is harvested as an energy source to promote rapid advances in artificial intelligence. This should be deeply interested in everyone. Over the past few decades, the incredible breakthroughs in stem cell research and its applications have led to new treatments for diseases that we once thought were incurable. This is generally a positive development for society. However, several new stem cell research has crossed bright ethical boundaries, such as using embryonic stem cells to create human brains called “organoids” for biocomputing.
AI consumes energy with AN
An unprecedented scaleleads to an equally unprecedented global appetite for more efficient energy sources. for example, A simple query to ChatGPT requires about 10 times more energy than a typical Google search. As a result, people using AI have already had some impact on most individuals and businesses, but are urgently looking for ways to consume electricity and reduce rapidly rising costs.
If it requires the destruction of the fetus, it will not truly save lives.
To meet that demand, scientists began to embrace the concept of biocomputing. This was purely in the realm of science fiction until very recently. Biocomputing is essentially
merger Between biology and computer technology. Biocomputer is already It's been built It uses a combination of laboratory-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits.
The rise of biological calculations
That's what Swiss Tech Startup Final Park does
Currently selling biocomputers It consists of four miniature labo cultivated organoids embedded with silicon chips. Fred Jordan, co-founder of Final Park, has I said Because of the energy efficiency of these biocomputers, “computing can ultimately become an activity without an ecological footprint,” becoming a child of the Green Energy Motion poster. Final Park claim Its neuroplatform products are up to a million times more energy efficient than current computing hardware.
Finalspark's Neuroplatform is already available
Recruitment For biocomputing research by universities around the world, including the University of Michigan. Other US universities are also dabbling in biocalculation. For example, the University of Southern California I received a $2 million grant The 2024 National Science Foundation promoted biocomputing efforts.
The dark side of biocomputing
Some may see the potential for this new scientific advancement and application in fields such as energy and medicine. Unfortunately, however, the construction of biocomputers involves an ethically dark process.
Organoids are cultivated
Extracted human stem cellsthen “taught” to perform the task through electrical stimulation or infusion of chemicals such as dopamine. When these brains perform the tasks as researchers intend, organoids are “rewarded” with dopamine. If notthey will be “punished” for electric shock. Furthermore, organoids survive this process only for about 100 days, and then new organoids grow to replace them.
The Dark Secrets of Stem Cell Sourcing
The procurement process for stem cell extraction is even, except for the fact that this process essentially involves the death of life forms through torture in the name of “progress.”
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It is well established that human embryos have been used in stem cell research for decades, and the increase in vitro fertilization has made them very easy for researchers to access them. Unused embryos produced through IVF are often donated to universities or scientific institutions for medical research. Surprisingly, there is currently no way to track the number of embryos donated for research purposes, but it is estimated that 59% of IVF patients would like to do so.
Because the nature of the embryos cannot be tracked, it is also not possible to track the number of donated embryos used to create organoids for biocomputing. However, embryos are clearly used for this purpose.
From stem cells to organoids
Studies published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences show various sources of stem cells from organoids, including embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and adult stem cells.
Another study published in
Frontier of sciencestate:
Over the past decade, we have seen a revolution in brain cell culture that transitions from traditional monolayer cultures to more organ-like organised 3D cultures, namely brain organoids. These can be generated from embryonic stem cells or from ethically less problematic iPSCs derived from skin samples.
Other sources support the same information, and scientists seem to have little ethical anxiety about using embryos in such studies. Bioethicist at Harvard Medical School
Insoo Hyun It is listed in the journal cell2024: “Cognitive bars are set so high for personality, it seems premature to worry about whether brain organoids, neurological chimeras, or embryo models deserve the same ethical protection as usual.”
Ultimately, scientists like Hyun don't think that embryos and fetuses are truly human, as they are not yet “sensory.” Therefore, their experiments or their use is justified.
We face two problems. One is that we are killing the brains of humans who have created, enslaved and ultimately grown in the lab to power artificial intelligence. It's quite intrusive in itself. From an ethical perspective, what's far more unsettling is that scientists use fetal embryos to create their brains.
Protect your life
There are many ways policymakers can protect their fetus more generally, but there are also ways state lawmakers can stop embryos from being used in this particular way.
At baseline, human embryos created via IVF must be clearly defined by state law as fertilizer eggs consisting of one or more living human cells and human genetic material that develops into children. Additionally, state lawmakers should expressly prohibit state taxpayer funds from creating, destroying or putting human embryos at risk in research experiments involving publicly funded state universities. In cooperation, state funds should be prohibited from being used to transport fetal tissue in state lineage, preventing the circumvention of these restrictions.
Researchers, scientists and scholars argue that such limitations hamper advances not only by creating organoids, which are touted as steps towards energy-efficient utopia, but also by developing other so-called life-saving technologies and treatments. But if it requires the destruction of the fetus, it will not truly save lives. Furthermore, the claim itself is incorrect. Adult stem cells can replace embryonic stem cells;
It's significantly effective.
The embryo is a prenatal human. They deserve the same or greater protection as any form of human life, especially as they are experimented and used as sources of energy. It is up to us to save them from this destiny.
