{"id":329850,"date":"2025-04-17T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=329850"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:38:29","slug":"ivf-machines-making-the-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ivf-machines-making-the-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Machines making humans: First baby born after ‘robot-controlled’ IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the latest tech news<\/a>, society has entered a new era in which humans and machines have swapped roles, and the machines are now making the humans<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In what is being called<\/a> a “historic medical breakthrough,” the first baby has been born through a “fully automated IVF procedure powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics” as part of a study published by Reproductive Biomedicine Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to US News & World Report<\/a>, the “world’s first baby conceived through robot-controlled fertilization has been born…” to a 40-year-old woman in Mexico. Remote operators in Guadalajara and New York oversaw an automated system in which AI selected a sperm from the woman’s partner, prepared it for injection, and then injected it into an egg from a 23-year-old ‘donor.’<\/p>\n

“With AI, the system autonomously selects sperm and precisely immobilizes its midsection with a laser ready for injection \u2014 executing this rapid, precise process with a level of accuracy beyond human capability,” said lead researcher Gerardo Mendizabal Ruiz, director of the Computational Perception Laboratory at the University of Guadalajara.<\/p>\n

Jacques Cohen, the scientist who pioneered<\/a> the freezing and thawing of embryos for use in IVF, said that AI-fertilization “represents a transformative solution that promises to enhance precision, improve efficiency, and ensure consistent outcomes.”<\/p>\n

It’s as though Cohen isn’t speaking about human beings at all<\/em>, but about items on a factory production line, because that is what artificial reproductive technologies and in vitro fertilization have reduced the creation of human life to \u2014 a new industrial revolution. Sci-fi thrillers instilled fear of robots taking over the world, but that fear can now be replaced with a new one: robots controlling us because they made us.<\/p>\n

It’s like something straight out of a sci-fi movie:<\/p>\n

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