Elina Halonen

Strategic consultant and researcher working on human–AI collaboration, with a focus on delegation and responsibility.

I am a behavioural science consultant and researcher based in the Netherlands.

I have spent the past 15 years working on how people make decisions in real-world settings, and how strategies, policies, and systems often fail when they rely on unrealistic assumptions about human behaviour.

More recently, I have shifted my focus to AI. The same pattern appears here, but at a larger scale: systems are introduced quickly, while the assumptions about how people will use them, rely on them, and remain responsible are often left implicit.

Alongside my consulting work through Prismatic Strategy, I am completing an MSc in AI & Governance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My thesis focuses on human oversight and delegation in agentic AI systems in the public sector.

My work sits between behavioural science, AI governance, and organisational practice, with a focus on how AI is used in real workflows and how decisions and responsibility are handled once systems are involved.

Human oversight in AI and agentic systems in the public sector

MSc thesis · AI & Governance, VU Amsterdam

Researching how people make decisions about when to delegate to AI systems and when to retain human judgment.

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Prismatic Strategy

Strategic Consulting

Helping organizations navigate complexity with clarity, combining behavioral science insights with practical strategy.

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Artificial Thought

Exploring how AI changes the way we think, decide, and work. Covers AI governance, human oversight, and the challenge of thinking clearly alongside machines.

Thinking About Behavior

Deep dives into behavioural science — decoding complex research into digestible insights for anyone curious about how human decisions shape the world around us.

Books in Progress

Design Your Co-Intelligence

Most AI advice focuses on prompts, tools, and productivity. This book takes a different approach: it treats human–AI collaboration as a relationship between two forms of intelligence, and asks what it would take to design that relationship deliberately. Drawing on behavioural science, the book shows how interaction quality depends less on technique and more on self-understanding: how you think, decide, and misjudge.

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You Are Bleeding to Death

The book examines iron deficiency as a failure of systems, not awareness: a condition affecting one in three women, hidden by diagnostic thresholds, clinical habits, and the normalisation of female exhaustion. Written from the perspective of a behavioural scientist whose own decade-long decline reversed after treatment, the book traces how biology becomes invisible when institutions are built to recognise collapse rather than depletion.

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I'm always happy to connect with researchers, practitioners, and curious people working at the intersection of AI, governance, and human behavior.

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