Sidd Krishnan is a computer scientist specializing in AI and data science. He grew up on a steady diet of Asimov, Herbert, Clarke – typically yellowing paperbacks that he would get access to at his local library in Madras, India. Presently, in an effort to broaden public engagement with his academic research, he strives to use speculative fiction as an analytical tool to investigate the intersection of futurism and recent advances in artificial intelligence.