Recently, a professor affiliated with Ghent University and the University of Zurich authored a paper in the Elsevier journal Futures, titled "The dysgenics objection to longtermism". The paper posits that genetic factors could lead to a decline in future intelligence, resulting in a reduced moral status for future generations. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328724001009#sec0040
The correlation between cognitive capacity and moral status is highly controversial, to say the least. For instance, those responsible for the 2008 world economic collapse were not lacking in intelligence; they were, in fact, highly intelligent individuals who made decisions that had catastrophic consequences.
Additionally, there is evidence suggesting that having a population with a high concentration of highly intelligent individuals may not always be beneficial. In 2020, The Economist published an intriguing article (that I cited in a previous post) about the potential dangers of a country having too many intelligent people https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/22/can-too-many-brainy-people-be-a-dangerous-thing
