Sci-Fi Author & AI Futurist
Insights & Essays
Ishan shares immersive sci-fi essays that connect his science fiction books to real-world research on artificial intelligence, governance, and the ethics of designing tomorrow’s tools. Dive into narrative craft notes, policy reflections, and speculative provocations that shape the AI Futures Series.
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Essays documenting how speculative fiction and emerging technology shape one another.
Invisible infrastructures run the automated societies inside and outside the dystopian sci-fi novel The Interim set in 2045. This science fiction essay outlines how transparent oversight, narrative worldbuilding, and civic imagination keep planetary-scale AI governance systems accountable.
Drawing lessons from the creative tensions inside the near-future AI novel The Interim, where Dr. Mira Rao confronts AI governance gone wrong, Ishan maps out design practices that keep automation empathetic, auditable, and grounded in human agency across real-world labs and science fiction story worlds alike.
Why do we need science fiction that insists on humane futures? This sci-fi manifesto argues that visionary storytelling and responsible technology research must work together to summon the worlds hinted at in the novel The Interim.