2025 Essay Contest
Real or Fake?
Shortlist
Countdown to the winners is around the corner! Here is the shortlist. Winners will be announced very soon. Please follow our announcements!
- Yahia Lababidi (What Cannot Be Outsourced)
- Sue Harris (Don’t Wake Up)
- Aleeza Rauf (I Fell in Love With A Lie)
- Nataša Vlčková (The Quiet Mirror)
- Noor Nildan (Earthling, Don’t Be Afraid, We Come in Peace)
- Jed Richardson (EuloGPT)
- Kudzanai Lucy Nemuramba (Fading Echoes)
- Fatimah Azzahra Ishak (Between Sidq and Simulation)
- Nina Bartolotta (The Social Dance)
- Jaymee Harper (From the Ashes)
- Sidra Noor (God of the 3 a.m.)
- Guneesh Jassi (When Truth Drowns)
- Hyomin Claire Yoo-Jin Y (Hesitation: Humanity’s Last Refuge in the Age of AI)
- Trang Nguyen (Hi AI, give me some AE!)
- Neda Petrovic (Homo Perditus)
- Arman Levonan (Humanity Behind the Glass Screen)
- Gale Ryan (I Miss the Dinosaurs)
- Jinisa “Jin” Srisujjalertwaja (Is That a Person)
- Josie Levin (It Is Not Alive)
- Jagriti Sharma (Real Is Fake and Fake Is Real)
- Leander P. E. Isler (Ghosts in the Machine)
- Khushi Kumari (AI- Real or Fake)
- Anwita D Pillai (A Love Letter to Human Error)
- Vince East (A Trivial Anomaly)
- Lily Tadevosyan (AI in Opposition to Reality)
- Nevelle Thomas (AI wrote an essay that was so perfect that I deleted it)
- Amna Majid (AI Revealed Who We Really Are)
- Annie Pardis (AI’s Cave)
- Destiny Hankerson (In the Age of AI, the Power Is in Our Hands – and Hearts!)
- Arnavi Rathore (Almost Real, A Heartbeat Beyond Code)
- Varsha Kolpe (Anchored in Light)
- Elena Zancanaro (Between the Glow and the Shadow)
- Sneha Parackal (Between Real and Fake Life in the AI Age)
- Margarette Gatchalian (Beyond the Checkbox)
- Lisa Parris (Caribbean Voices Offline: When AI Barely Knows We Exist)
- Róbert Csoma (Code Can’t Bleed)
- Saicharan Ritwik Chinni (The Floating Earring)
- Madalina Cara (Vanishing voices, and algorithms)
- Roa La (A Mafia Boss Among Us)
- Aeman Abbasi (Artificial Origins, Human Truths)
- Stefany Coching (The Beginnings of AI Uprising)
- Raphael Joseph D. Osano (The Cathedral I Found Inside a Typing Box at Midnight)
- Eiffel Aurora – Lucian (The Soul and the Algorithm)
- Divna Vuksanović (Fountain Philosophy: From Reflections in Water to Algorithmic Illusions)
- Alberte Kastrup (The Fragility of Real)
- Adie Tinyy (The Joke’s on Us, Or Is It)
- Hale Hayta (The Last Broadcast)
- Lawrencia Musona (The Loneliness Algorithm)
- Sarai Louis (The Oasis)
- Olesia Tsvientukh (The Things We Count in the Dark)
- Sindiswa Ndzinisa (The Virtual Heirloom)
- Lim Zhi Zenn (The World’s Most Treasured Robber)
- Dulaj Zahra (This is how I stayed)
- Tarun Mhanta (Through the Glass)
- Samina Misra (When Fake Feels Real)
- A Beneke (When the Mirror Learns to Lie)
- Sob Kamwa Francois (Whispers from the Cloud)
- Abdul-Wasiu Abdul-Ganiyy (Wired Illusion)
- Khamara Nicholson (Now I know what’s real, what’s fake)
- Jessica Reimer (Please Confirm You’re Not a Robot)
- Milanka Sulejic (Real or Fake)
- Maria Karabun (Reflection in the mirror)
- Miraal Omerkhawaja (The Age of Cognitive Surrender)
- Brighton Matereke (The AI Mirror)
- Clara Zhao (Love Me through the Screen)
- Kylee Perry (Memories Outlive Machines)
- Mileva Roumer (Now Featuring- Your Face Without You Beta Test My Soul)
- Mi Ainsel (Of Lies – Self, Doubt, and AI)
- Robert Hurtado (Permanently Impermanent: The Illusions We Live With)
- Darryl de Carteret (Real Mates, Artificial Friends and Growing Up Then and Living Now)
- Mercy Pam (Real or Fake)
- Haniya Wasim (Searching for What Is Real in an Age of Illusions)
- Maria Guia Lopez de Leon (Soft Launching My Soul in an AI World)
- Phoebe Amakiri (The Age of Almost)
- Sam Okwuoha (The Authenticity Paradox)
- Katim Touray (The Brushstroke and the Byte)
- Peter Kaitano (The Canvas of My Mind)
- Shivangi (The Counterfeit Nightingale and the Real Song)
- John Tommy (The Digital Echo)
