The transhumanist project of reshaping human beings by promoting their improvement through technological innovations has a broad agenda. This study focuses on the enhancement of the human organism through genetic modification techniques. Transhumanism values and a discussion of their philosophical background provide a framework to understand its ideals. Genetics and ethics are employed to assess the claims of the transhumanist program of human enhancement. A succinct description of central concepts in genetics and an explanation of current techniques to edit the human genome serve to assess the capabilities and limitations of editing techniques. Potential benefits and liabilities of human enhancement through genome editing are discussed to appraise its feasibility. Ethical considerations of genome editing inform a reflection on the implications of introducing heritable changes in the genome of individuals. It is concluded that the transhumanist program is underpinned by a large number of hypotheses rather than by sufficient evidence.

通过技术创新促进人类进步来重塑人类的超人类主义项目具有广泛的议程。这项研究的重点是通过基因改造技术增强人类有机体。超人类主义价值观及其哲学背景的讨论提供了一个理解其理想的框架。遗传学和伦理学被用来评估人类增强的超人类主义计划的主张。对遗传学中心概念的简洁描述和对当前编辑人类基因组技术的解释有助于评估编辑技术的能力和局限性。讨论了通过基因组编辑增强人类的潜在利益和责任，以评估其可行性。基因组编辑的伦理考虑反映了在个体基因组中引入可遗传变化的影响。得出的结论是，超人类主义计划的基础是大量假设，而不是足够的证据。