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On the Edge of Reality is a place to think clearly about trust, intelligence, and agency as the web, AI, and human coordination blur into something new.

Newsletter · By Daveed Benjamin · Official site

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Sep 25, 2026
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Aug 17, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    I Came Home From the Pro-Human Assembly With 60 Cents (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    A New Chapter (opens the original)

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    Some of you first arrived here through my work on the Metaweb and Meta-Layer. Others came through On the Edge of Reality, where I have been following changes in AI, technology, governance, and the systems underneath the systems.I am not leaving that work. The frame around it is getting larger.Over the past year, and especially after the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, I have become increasingly convinced that the central question is not simply how we make AI safer, more useful, or more loyal t

  3. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    Truth Is Too Important to Leave to Chance (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 21, 2026

    AI Can Help Us Cooperate. Today’s Web Cannot. (opens the original)

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    Something profound happened at an AI and democracy workshop in Seoul this summer, and it was not a new breakthrough in artificial intelligence. It was an admission about the limits of AI.Fifty AI researchers, democracy practitioners, and builders gathered in Seoul for Supercooperation: The Future of AI for Democracy. They looked at experiments already underway: AI helping citizens turn lived experience into policy proposals, helping deliberative assemblies synthesize public input, interviewing p

  5. Issue · Aug 17, 2026

    Two Years to 1.0 (opens the original)

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