That's probably not true. You know what Stephen Hawking said?
The nutshell version is we'll have to genetically engineer ourselves to avoid the #Singularity.
It's almost inevitable it will happen.
We talk up a lot of vapour but in the end we always do anything we can. We can genetically engineer ourselves so we will. In fact we'll have to.
Once China perfects gene editing to increase #intelligence are you seriously telling me we should just let them get on with it? :)