Silicon Valley parents are shelling out as much as $50,000 to screen their embryos — to figure out which is most likely to grow into a “baby genius,” according to a report.

Some are even pushing a eugenics program to birth an entire generation of hand-picked brilliant babies in hopes they’ll turn out clever enough to save humanity from the threat of artificial intelligence.

It might sound like an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” but high-performing babies are a growing obsession among wealthy tech executives – and they’re willing to pay big bucks for it, according to the Wall Street Journal . 4

Startups Nucleus Genomics and Herasight charge $6,000 and up to $50,000, respectively, for their genetic testing of embryos – including IQ predictions – for couples using in vitro fertiliza

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