Frontier Philosophies

What if the internet got its neighbourhoods back?

What thinking about AI agents has got me wondering about the personal web.

Oct 7 • Laura Richards

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AI isn’t replacing designers - it is expanding where design expertise is needed

Thoughts on the impact of AI on design and creativity, ahead of speaking at the Design in Everything’s opening event.

Oct 1 • Laura Richards

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September 2026

Maths for writers: AI text ≠ zero value

Thinking in public: where does the value of a piece of writing actually live?

Sep 21 • Laura Richards

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1.7 million words of my own thinking were sitting inside AI chat windows

I run an AI consultancy, and I am building a voice-first AI product (Riff) on the side. I believe that - founder or expert - your most valuable asset is…

Sep 14 • Laura Richards

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April 2026

The pyramid scheme we call the social contract, and how AI was supposed to save us from it

I had a lively, sprawling conversation with my in-laws over coffee recently that ended up, as these things sometimes do, on falling birth rates and the…

Apr 8 • Laura Richards

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March 2026

At last! Juries hold Meta and Google to account

The AI industry should feel put on notice

Mar 31 • Laura Richards

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What do Trump, Starmer and Anthropic have to do with your emails? (Hint: it's about data)

Everyone covered the Anthropic blacklisting as an AI safety story. They covered Trump and Starmer as a geopolitics story. But really? They're part of…

Mar 17 • Laura Richards

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A message to women founders: you're not lucky to receive investment

The maths isn’t maths-ing when it comes to founder gratitude. So why do we keep acting like it is?

Mar 4 • Laura Richards

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October 2025

The new knowledge monopoly: how Silicon Valley took control of our thoughts

Thinking in public: working ideas out, out loud.

Oct 4, 2025 • Laura Richards

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September 2025

A new beginning (of sorts)

WTF are Frontier Philosophies, anyway?

Sep 29, 2025 • Laura Richards

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