There's even plenty of reason to doubt the motivations of the very researchers involved here. George Church is known to have had extensive ties and contacts with Jeffrey Epstein. Here is some research at Harvard that Epstein sponsored (along with the Gates Foundation) singing the praises of "eusocial" forms of social organization, where reproductive ability is confined to a tiny subset of the population: "The ties that bind – Harvard Gazette" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/08/the-ties-that...

Do these people really intend for these technologies to benefit the broad mass of people?