By Sonali Khanna
12th grade | William Fremd High School | Illinois
Finalist, Information and AI category
With lines from “Can an AI Companion Really Care?” by Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell, a Pulitzer Center reporting project
Sonali Khanna is an incoming freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where she'll be studying math and journalism. In her spare time, she can often be found watching a movie or binge-reading a good book. She is honored to have been chosen as a finalist, and hopes to continue developing her writing skills in the future!
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