If I were a billionaire I'd do something similar with the human population...always have a list of humans who fulfilled a list of qualifications such as:
1. High IQ
2. Free of genetic defects.
3. Pass a DNA test that would detect recessive disease problems
4. etc.
After a world affecting catastrophic event and before everyone on the list died of starvation, etc. Collect these people and sprint them to a pre-preparded facility (probably underground) that contained food stocks, equipment, books, mfg equipment, raw materials of all sorts to re-start civilization. The energy for the facility could by supplied by small nuclear reactors (and some in waiting) that could be 'fired up' over the decades that may be necessary to produce a 'critical mass' of humans.
The list of humans 'qualified' to enter the facility would be heavy on those in their child-bearing years.
Everyone would be required to contribute.
“”””The list of humans ‘qualified’ to enter the facility would be heavy on those in their child-bearing years””””
NO NO NO NO NO!
And I don’t say that because of my age - I say that because we should start NOW - asking for egg & sperm donations (although I am adamantly opposed) from people who have already proved their bone fides.
In such a catastrophe we could not possibly locate all of the best candidates and shuttle them into the bank. Plus they would be too traumatized to copulate. We just need a janitor and a security guard with centrifuge experience.
You better get a better plan. The first one ain’t gonna work.