Dr. Prashant Kumar is a Junior Fellow with the Desirable Digitalisation project at the Centre for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, and Assistant Professor at Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi, where he teaches philosophy while exploring questions at the crossroads of ontology, digital culture, and artificial intelligence. He earned  a Ph.D. in philosophy in 2023 from the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. His current research interests include ontology, metaontology, and the ontology of AI, investigating what it means for artificial entities to "exist" within human thought. He also studies memes as cultural organisms evolving online and the metaverse as spaces blurring real-virtual boundaries. He recently finished a volume titled Why Philosophy? that establishes the relevance of the discipline in the techno-automated world. He has published several articles at the intersection of AI, ontology, self and subjectivity.