John Chu

writer
Short Story

Thirty Seconds from Now

  • by John Chu
  • in Boston Review, 1 September 2011

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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

Quantifying Trust

  • by John Chu
  • in Mother of Invention, edited by Rivqa Rafael and Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press, September 2018)

AI grad student Maya is attempting to train her prototype artificial neural net (named Sammy) so that it recognizes what to trust and what not to trust on the Internet, with the goal of building AIs free of human prejudice. Meanwhile, that new grad student Jake keeps saying and doing things that seem only to verify his ongoing joke that he’s an AI from the future. —Michael Main
You got me. I’m an android sent back from the future.
The bust of a black woman in colorful garb and a brace to enlongate her neck.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel