Richard Foster-Fletcher
Independent AI researcher. Chair of MKAI. Speaker on what AI does to the organisations that adopt it.
Richard Foster-Fletcher has spent years inside the AI field as Chair of MKAI, convening researchers, senior leaders, and practitioners across industries and geographies, running forums and summits, and building a body of published research. His work charted the arrival of large language models into mainstream organisational use.
Once AI became pervasive, the research narrowed to a single question: what does AI do to us.
Richard is an independent researcher, without institutional affiliation and without commercial obligation to any vendor or platform. That position is deliberate and it is permanent.
His research covers the full arc of what happens when AI enters institutional life, from how the models behave through to the organisational consequences of that behaviour, including the vendor dynamics and incentive structures that shape how organisations encounter the technology in the first place. He works across multiple language models continuously, testing them adversarially to surface the behaviours that become visible only when models are compared against each other.
He has delivered sessions and contributions at Oxford, LSE, Imperial, UCL, Cranfield, Salesforce, and Telefónica, with contributions to UK Parliament and United Nations convenings. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was named among the UK's Top 20 AI Researchers and Entrepreneurs (Favikon, 2026).