About

Darwin’s Edge is a near-future speculative worldbuilding project—designed to engage audiences in the ethical, political, and spiritual implications of AI–human brain interfaces. Through a series of interconnected stories, dialogues, and public conversations, it challenges communities to think critically and compassionately about the technologies that will soon shape our minds, our freedoms, and our moral responsibilities.

At the center of Darwin’s Edge are four figures whose convictions and conflicts define the coming era of neural integration. 

Senator Henry Van Buren, heir to a storied New York tradition, champions a National Brain/Computer Interface to renew America’s civic capacity and democratic imagination. 

Sarina Rao, the brilliant and devout architect of ThinkPal, argues that intelligence without conscience is a dead end—and seeks a synthesis of technological power and spiritual wisdom. 

Rev. Peter Gilman, a Unitarian Universalist minister, brings a pastoral lens to the debate, pressing both state and industry to honor technomoral virtues and the dignity of the person.

Marketing consultant Michael Carmody translates breakthrough science into public narrative, asking whether innovation can remain humane at scale.

As governments, corporations, and faith communities vie to shape this new frontier, Darwin’s Edge invites readers and participants to wrestle with a central question: Can humanity evolve ethically as swiftly as it evolves technologically?

The project’s public forums, classroom modules, and narrative arcs are designed to help communities cultivate wisdom, not just capability—so that neural integration, if it comes, serves freedom, flourishing, and the soul.