Why innovations in fertility care could further delay childbearing

Technological advancements, increasingly due to artificial intelligence, are transforming the fertility industry and redefining who can have a child. But they are not likely to reverse population decline. 

Last June, Dr. Zev Williams led medical professionals at Columbia University Fertility Center in announcing the first-ever pregnancy forged through Sperm Track and Recovery. Currently in its clinical phase, STAR is designed to offset azoospermia, or male infertility issues preventing pregnancies, by using an AI algorithm to detect sperm cells undetectable to the human eye. 

But Williams and other industry experts told the Washington Examiner that while developments in the field are pushing the boundaries of fertility access, AI-assisted IVF treatments can’t be relied upon to salve plunging birth rates, which first hit Asia, then Europe, and now