Ethicos AI is a small, founder-led consultancy. We help serious organisations think clearly about AI: where it fits, how it should be governed, and what it asks of the people who deploy it.
We work with teams who treat AI as a question worth thinking carefully about, not as a slogan to wave or a problem to outsource.
Engagements run the length of an AI question. Strategy at the start, governance and ethics in the middle, training and writing at the end. We sit alongside the people doing the work.
Every project starts with a careful reading of the system, the organisation, and the people it affects. From there we build the frameworks, policies, reviews and training that move responsible AI from a stated value to an operational one.
Etymology. From the Greek ἦθος (ēthos). Character, custom, the place of dwelling. Held alongside φρόνησις (phronēsis): practical wisdom under real conditions. The Æ holds the AI inside the word.
Responsible AI frameworks, internal policies, and the governance structures that hold them up. Built around how your organisation actually decides.
Briefings and decision support for executives weighing where AI fits, what it costs, and what it asks of them.
A senior review of an AI product, dataset or workflow. We look for the risks your team is too close to see, and recommend what to do about them.
AI ethics teaching that takes the subject seriously. For executive teams, technical teams, research groups and university programmes.
Ethics work packages and deliverables for EU-funded and international research consortia. Grant proposals, ethics leads, dissemination.
Specialist advisory for AI systems that need to reason under uncertainty. Rule-based, hybrid and decision-theoretic approaches for high-stakes contexts.
Non-executive directorships, board advisor seats, fractional Chief AI Officer engagements, and senior advisory for funds, foundations and serious technology programmes. A small number of seats each year.
Responsible AI is not a slogan, a checklist, or compliance theatre. It asks for clear reasoning, institutional judgement, and design choices that hold up under pressure.
The person you meet does the work. No layered teams, no juniors handed the difficult questions.
Years inside the philosophy, AI safety and governance of this subject. Not adjacent to it.
Frameworks and recommendations that survive contact with real decisions, real teams, real budgets.
We help clients think. We don't perform thinking on stage.
Map the system, the organisation, the risks, the people it affects. Including what isn't yet visible.
Discovery · interviews · landscapeIdentify the ethical, technical, institutional and strategic issues that actually matter for this case.
Analysis · framing · trade-offsBuild the frameworks, recommendations, policies or training the organisation can actually use.
Frameworks · policy · curriculumHelp teams apply the work in real decisions, products and governance processes. Not on a shelf.
Embedded support · review cyclesProduce the documentation, reports, briefings and external materials that earn institutional trust.
Reports · briefings · external materials“We're deploying AI internally and we need a real responsible-AI policy, not a copy-paste one.”
Internal policy, governance scaffolding and decision rights built around how your organisation actually works.
“We're building an AI product and want a serious ethical risk review before we ship.”
Independent review of system, dataset and workflow. Clear, prioritised recommendations.
“We need an AI ethics work package for a grant or research consortium.”
EU-funded ethics deliverables, responsible-innovation packages and dissemination input. We've led both sides.
“Our board needs a clear briefing on AI risks, opportunities and the regulatory direction of travel.”
Executive briefings tailored to your sector, footprint and the decisions actually in front of you.
“We want AI training that isn't generic awareness slides.”
Workshops grounded in your work, your data, your sector, your decisions. Designed to leave teams better at the actual job.
“We need to explain our AI approach credibly to partners, funders or regulators.”
Position papers, statements and review materials that hold up to scrutiny from a technical audience.
Responsible design, model risk, ethical positioning for investors and customers.
Ethics review, clinical AI oversight, stakeholder trust. Particular experience in healthcare and clinical research contexts.
Ethics deliverables, work packages and AI oversight. Including EU-funded Horizon projects.
Curriculum design, workshops, ethics integration in technical AI programmes.
Governance, risk and responsible adoption guidance for teams under public scrutiny.
Internal policy, governance, training and ongoing review.
Strategic briefings, decision support and clarity on the regulatory direction of travel.
Ethics leads, deliverables, reporting and review for funded research.
Cosmin Badea · London
Cosmin's work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, philosophy and applied ethics. He lectures on Contemporary Philosophy and AI at Imperial College London, leads AI and ethics on the €5.3M 4PCAN oncology consortium, serves as Chief AI Officer on the FH-EARLY clinical consortium, and is the architect of Project Nightingale, an AI-for-Good initiative focused on health.
Whether it's an internal AI policy, an ethics review of a product, a grant submission, a leadership briefing or something we haven't quite covered, Ethicos can help.
Enquiries are read personally by Cosmin.