Work with me
Speculative philosophy is most useful before the evidence arrives, which is exactly when technology, product and investment decisions get made. I work with founders, product leaders, investors and researchers who want that kind of thinking applied to real bets.
Consulting
Speculative philosophy as a decision tool for technology, product and investment strategy. I help founders, product leaders and investors pressure-test the assumptions inside a roadmap or thesis, map second- and third-order effects, and anticipate how a technology will change people, markets and institutions before the data can show it. Grounded in a career building software and a successful exit.
Advising
Ongoing advisory roles for founders, boards and funds building or backing AI products and platforms: a standing philosophical sparring partner for teams who want to think rigorously about what their technology does to people and to society.
Philosophical engagement
Private seminars and reading groups, one-on-one conversations, and written responses or commentary on ideas, papers and projects.
Collaboration
Research projects, co-authored papers, funded inquiry, and building software in service of philosophy (for example multi-agent experiments in artificial social intelligence).
Where consulting helps
- AI product strategy: what your product optimizes, what that proxy leaves out, and what it will do to users over years, not quarters.
- Investment theses on frontier technology (AI agents and companions, cognitive enhancement, autonomous systems): which assumptions about human behavior a bet depends on, and which won't hold.
- Second-order effects and backlash: how cultural, moral and regulatory responses are likely to form around a technology.
- Trust in autonomous systems: why statistically safe can still be socially unacceptable, and how to design for it.
- Long-range scenarios and executive or board sessions for teams making bets years ahead of the evidence.
Topics I work on
- AI and the future of human coordination
- Philosophy of technology as a practical discipline for builders
- Human nature in an age of digital immersion
- The moral and ontological status of AI systems
- Pluralism, evolution and adaptive intelligence
- Progress, meaning and the good digital life
The essays and key concepts are the best way to see how I think.
What I’m betting on now
In 2025, my bet was the Plurality: that the future of AI would belong not to one godlike superintelligence, but to many intelligences, each embedded in real problems, each with its own judgment, working with each other and with us. That now seems to be solidly where things are heading.
My bet now is the high-dimensional society. If intelligence is plural, the question becomes how all those intelligences, human and artificial, coordinate. I think the best case for AI is not automating tasks or surpassing human minds, but transforming coordination itself: replacing the thin proxies society runs on (price, vote, click, credential) with interfaces that can carry far more of what people actually value.
That shift, from AI as a tool to AI as coordination infrastructure, is where I'd look for both the largest opportunities and the largest risks.
Get in touch
Email rbgriggs@praxica.com with a sentence or two about what you have in mind: the decision or project, who it's for, and timing.