The rise of artificial intelligence and robotics raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human person, as a philosopher and member of Pontifical Academy for Life, explains

Recently I reflected on aspects of the human form and human identity, as these were the focus of an exhibition at the National Gallery of the renaissance artists Bellini and Mantegna and of contemporary geneticists – the latter in light of the announcement that a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had used gene-editing to alter the DNA of a number of embryos leading to the birth of twin girls.