AI, Governance, and the Human Consequences of Design
Consulting & Advisory
I work with organisations at the intersection of psychology, technology, and public life, helping them think through how AI systems shape human experience once they become part of everyday use. My interest is less in AI as a technical artefact, and more in AI as social and psychological infrastructure — systems that increasingly mediate attention, judgement, emotion, identity, and care.
Much work on responsible AI begins with principles such as fairness and transparency. These matter, but organisations still face difficult decisions about real products, real users, and emerging forms of harm. I bridge that gap—translating psychological risk into practical recommendations for product design, governance, and organisational strategy.
What I do
I help organisations identify and mitigate human and psychological risks in AI products, particularly those involving emotional reliance, mental-health impact, dependency, vulnerable users, and the automation of care or judgement.
I am often asked to support organisations with:
- Human Risk Assessment for AI Products: Evaluation of use-cases, prompts, UX language, and deployment context to identify psychological harm, dependency, and misuse risks, with practical mitigation recommendations.
- Pre-Launch Human Safety Review: Rapid review of high-risk features or applications before release, producing a go/no-go memo and required changes.
- Advisory & Strategy: Ongoing advisory support for product, policy, and leadership teams on psychologically informed AI governance.
- Additional areas of support:
- identifying ethical risk emerging from use-cases, defaults, and incentives
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developing psychologically informed governance or internal guidance
Engagements are strategic and advisory. The emphasis is on foresight, coherence, and accountability—not box-ticking or reputational management.
I work with technology companies, public bodies, think tanks, policy groups, universities, research institutes, and cultural organisations. Engagements may be project-based or ongoing. Enquiries about consulting, advisory, and commissioned work are welcome.
Non-Fiction
The Algorithmic Mind
The Algorithmic State (forthcoming) explores why rising anxiety, burnout, loneliness and social fragmentation are increasingly structural consequences of the economic, political and technological systems that organise modern life. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, political economy and technology, it argues that power has progressively migrated from external institutions into the nervous system itself, reshaping attention, identity and behaviour through environments designed for optimisation, prediction and continuous engagement. Rather than asking how individuals can cope better, The Algorithmic State asks a more fundamental question: what kind of society would allow people to finally stand down?
Fiction
Borderless
Borderless (2026) is a literary novel about the seduction of reinvention. When Charlotte Hughes leaves London for India, she imagines she can escape the borders that have shaped her life—of nation, class, ambition and identity. Instead, she discovers that every crossing creates new boundaries, and every search for freedom carries its own forms of exile. Spanning Delhi, Bangalore, Goa and the Himalayan foothills, Borderless is an exploration of love, power, belonging and the uneasy freedoms of contemporary global life.
Keeping it authentic, fearless and compassionate
Get involved by working with me directly. Alongside receiving one-to-one support, you’ll be contributing to the development of NeuroClear — an emerging, evidence-based clinical platform focused on assessment and support for neurodivergent adults.
