Countries which aren't run by tyrants will not engage in these sorts of experiments. Any free-thinking scientific community knows the risks vastly outweigh the

Countries which aren't run by tyrants will not engage in these sorts of experiments. Any free-thinking scientific community knows the risks vastly outweigh the benefits, and will continue to do so for a long time. Surely you can see the biggest problem is that IQ is a surrogate of what we actually want, and if you start editing to achieve that, you could easily end up with people that are world class at guessing the most obvious next number in a sequence, but will never discover anything. What is likely to happen is that somewhere like North Korea could start trying it. If they get far enough into it, they will probably realise super-intelligent people don't want to hang around in totalatarian regimes run by fools, or swallow propaganda. Either they will find a way to make super-intelligent psychopaths who are naturally gratified by participating in world-denomination skullduggery, or they will engineer them to be somehow dependent on the regime, perhaps introducing a disease that needs some hard to acquire maintenance therapy.