Because when one is disproportionately powerful, it's one's responsibility to maintain high standards of ethics. It's the burden of being powerful. This almost fetish way of thinking about knowledge is wrong. Just because one can do something that will benefits does not mean it should be done, let's try to have a larger circle of empathy.

This research does not provide any life saving or (afaik) improving knowledge, what gives us the right to mess with another living being just because of curiosity?

Edit: wrong word used