{"id":206977,"date":"2025-02-22T02:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inside-the-new-baby-boom-movement-thats-taken-hold-of-silicon-valley-complete-with-gene-editing-and-artificial-wombs"},"modified":"2025-02-22T02:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:02:28","slug":"inside-the-new-baby-boom-movement-thats-taken-hold-of-silicon-valley-complete-with-gene-editing-and-artificial-wombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inside-the-new-baby-boom-movement-thats-taken-hold-of-silicon-valley-complete-with-gene-editing-and-artificial-wombs","title":{"rendered":"Inside the new baby-boom movement that\u2019s taken hold of Silicon Valley \u2014 complete with gene editing and artificial wombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dx3NjGSrpQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley elites are quietly appointing themselves ancestors of the future.<\/p>\n<p>As American fertility rates continue to hit record lows \u2014 well below the \u201creplacement rate\u201d from one generation to the next \u2014 the pronatalism movement has found a foothold in the tech world.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/15\/us-news\/ashley-st-clair-who-claims-to-have-had-musks-13th-child-reveals-life-of-secrecy\/\">who apparently now has 13 children<\/a> \u2014 has openly endorsed the movement, which believes in pumping out babies to fight societal collapse. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7taK2t3Xk2TbZfM4P3DA4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> has said<\/a>, \u201cOf course I\u2019m going to have a big family\u201d and is investing in experimental fertility technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley elites are quietly appointing themselves ancestors of the future. As American fertility rates continue to hit record lows \u2014 well below the \u201creplacement rate\u201d from one generation to the next \u2014 the pronatalism movement has found a foothold in the tech world. Elon Musk \u2014 who apparently now has 13 children \u2014 has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}