As chimpanzees have no legal rights, then the exact same genetic engineering should be able to make them smarter without legal consequence. Hmm, now which count

As chimpanzees have no legal rights, then the exact same genetic engineering should be able to make them smarter without legal consequence. Hmm, now which countries would do this first? No need for science fiction if this article is correct, just use actual science. Raising the intelligence of people rather than chimps might create unstable people; here you could simply kill the animals without legal difficulty - that is, until one of them graduates from law school.