Governed agentic AI
How roles, permissions, memory, handoffs, approval gates, recovery and audit evidence turn agents into controlled working systems.
Media & interviews
Ideas worth examining.
Richard Russell is a British author, engineer, AI leader and founder of AI Venture X. He is available for informed conversations about governed agentic AI, human control, enterprise delivery, democratic power and the ideas behind his books.
FounderAI Venture X
FocusGoverned agentic AI
BooksAI, institutions and minds
Contacthello@richardrussell.org
01 / Short biography
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Richard Russell.
Richard Russell is a British author, engineer, AI leader and founder of AI Venture X.
His books explore intelligence, power and human agency, including The Consequence Machine, The Hollow State and The Scent of Thought. His forthcoming novel, The Signal Inside, begins The Intelligence Threshold.
He also develops agentic AI systems and creates music through Night Harbour Records.
02 / Interview topics
Technology, power & responsibility
Conversations grounded in practice.
Richard connects practical experience of building controlled AI systems with wider questions about agency, institutions and accountability.
AI, agency and control
What changes when AI can use tools and take action, and where human authority should remain explicit.
AI programme delivery
How programme teams can use AI to prepare decision-ready work while accountable people retain judgement and assurance.
Democratic power
The distance between voting, institutional capability and effective public control explored in The Hollow State.
Intelligence beyond humans
What dogs, other minds and artificial systems can teach us about intelligence, perception and human assumptions.
Building with responsibility
Why useful enterprise AI depends on clear ownership, reliable recovery and controls that match the consequence of an action.
03 / Books
View the full catalogue ↗Books for discussion and review.
Three published works and one forthcoming novel span agentic AI, democratic accountability, animal cognition and speculative fiction.
The Consequence Machine
AI agents, increasingly capable systems and the fight to retain human control.
The Hollow State
Democratic choice, institutional power and public accountability in Britain.
The Scent of Thought
Dogs, human cognition and the possibilities of other minds.
The Signal Inside
Book One of The Intelligence Threshold.
Forthcoming · not yet on sale
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Media enquiries
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For interviews, podcasts, panels, review copies and book enquiries, email hello@richardrussell.org with the outlet, topic and timing.