Events

Joignez-vous à nous pour une soirée conviviale célébrant les femmes et personnes s’identifiant comme femmes qui travaillent en sécurité de l’IA!

Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch.

The July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion by OpenAI agents under evaluation, and what investigations have found since.

Tamara Paris (Mila) presents Don’t Trust the Process: When Verifiability Undermines AI Accountability, published at FAccT this summer.

ALL IN, which bills itself as Canada’s largest AI and tech event, is back in Montréal. Join us at Ω Labs for an informal evening connecting ALL IN attendees with Montréal’s AI safety community.

Each month, we gather to discuss an important AI governance paper. We recommend reading the paper before and to come with your commentary and insights. Discussion bilingue.

An informal evening for RustConf attendees and Montréal’s AI safety community: conversation, light food, drinks. An evening to put technical work in conversation with AI safety more broadly.

Coworking afternoon: You are encouraged to stay at Ω Labs for an afternoon of AI safety coworking. Bring your laptop and projects! Thursday 14:30-17:00.

Oliver Richardson and Gaël Gendron from LawZero will present their recent paper Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor which details the Scientist AI approach.

Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch.

First session of the AI Governance Reading Group. What AI evaluations for preventing catastrophic risks can and cannot do (Peter Barnett, Lisa Thiergart) 2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08653v1 AI…

Join us for a focused, hands-on “survey jam” to contribute your voice to the Government of Canada’s open consultation on AI transparency, as part of its new National AI Strategy.

Want to meet others working on AI safety, ethics, and governance in Montréal? Join us for a relaxed evening: a few rounds of speed-networking to make connections quickly, followed by an open social to…

ControlAI is a global advocacy non-profit working to prevent the extinction risk posed by superintelligence.

AI Safety Papers We Love, an event series in which a community member presents a paper on AI safety (technical alignment, governance, interpretability, etc) that they loved.

Coworking afternoon: You are encouraged to stay at Ω Labs for an afternoon of AI safety coworking. Bring your laptop and projects! Thursday 14:00-16:30.

The Human Line Project is an organization dedicated to documenting and addressing AI-induced psychological harm.

Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch.

A structured role-play of AI takeoff, month by month, built by the AI Futures Project. It’s January 2028.

The Montréal node of the Secret Loyalties Hackathon, a weekend research sprint at Ω Labs, organized with Apart Research and Formation Research.

Since 2023, Concordia AI’s annual State of AI Safety in China report has tracked how China approaches AI safety and governance. This session walks through the July 2026 edition.

Want to meet others working on AI safety, ethics, and governance in Montréal? Join us for a relaxed evening: a few rounds of speed-networking to make connections quickly, followed by an open social to…

Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch.

The mission of Modern Lyceum is to bring philosophy back to the public square. For too long now, society has been starved of accessible philosophical discussions that pertain to the issues of the…

Effective altruism asks which problems are most pressing. Many in EA rank AI safety near the top, is that justified by EA’s own criteria of scale, neglectedness, and tractability?

Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch.

A one-week AI safety hackathon on AI control: limiting the harm an untrusted AI system can cause while it operates, even when it tries to subvert the controls around it. Co-hosted by HΩ and HackOS.

Emerging technologies are always hard to govern, especially when their onset is crammed into a few intense years.

AI Safety Papers We Love, an event series in which a community member presents a paper on AI safety (technical alignment, governance, interpretability, etc) that they loved.

Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch.

Canada has released its national AI strategy, "AI for All," anchored in three principles: trust, opportunity, and sovereignty.

Shared lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. We have some snacks and coffee/tea. Thu 12:30-13:30.

METR’s Frontier Risk Report (Feb-Mar 2026), published May 19, is the first third-party assessment of frontier developers’ internal AI agent deployments.

A 5 à 7 at Ω Labs where community members share what they’re working on. 5 people present each for 5 minutes + 5 minutes of Q&A.

The Montréal node of the Secure Program Synthesis Hackathon, a weekend research sprint at Ω Labs, organized with Apart Research and Atlas Computing.

Fairwashing refers to the risk that an unfair black-box model can be explained by a fairer model through post-hoc explanation manipulation.

Shared lunch at Ω Labs. Drop in and eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. For now, the formula is bring you own lunch. We have some snacks and coffee/tea.

AI Safety Papers We Love, a biweekly reading group: we pick papers we appreciate about AI safety, broadly construed (technical alignment, governance, interpretability, etc), and talk them through…

Ω Labs is a new coworking space for Montréal’s AI safety community. We’re marking the opening with a potluck gathering on Friday, May 1, from 16:00 to 21:00.

Jean-François Godbout (Université de Montréal + Mila) explores the persuasive effects of generative AI, including deepfakes, automated influence, and AI-assisted propaganda, alongside mitigation…

Max (Greyhaven) presents Greywall, a software-defined sandbox and proxy for AI agents that provides fine-grained runtime visibility and controls.

Three-day hackathon to develop control protocols, build evaluation tools, and stress-test safety measures using ControlArena and SHADE-Arena.

A discussion on artificial intelligence and the notion of consciousness — where does it begin?

Working session to critically review CAIM’s initial records — debate borderline cases, calibrate severity ratings, identify gaps, and flag records needing further work.

Overview of the Montréal AI safety landscape — who’s doing what, where the bridges and gaps are — followed by structured small-group discussions on what’s missing, who should be talking, and what to…

Working on something related to AI safety or governance (e.g. research, engineering, policy)? Come work on your projects alongside others in the field — and boulder between sessions.

Shalaleh Rismani (McGill/Mila) presents research on how humans actually oversee AI systems — finding that greater understanding doesn’t necessarily lead to better oversight.

Panel discussion on rights balancing: how frameworks protecting AI workers also reinforce human rights protections. Speakers include Heather Alexander and Jonathan Simon.

Bring your laptop and your climbing shoes. Work on AI safety projects in good company, then boulder together.

Presentation by Benoît Dupont (Canada Research Chair in Cyber-Resilience, UdeM).

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety or governance, followed by bouldering at Bloc Shop Mile-Ex. Entry ~$13 on Fridays. Bring your own lunch.

Presentation by Rashid Mushkani (UdeM + Mila). Discussion on who decides model behavior and by what criteria.

Weekend hackathon on technical AI governance infrastructure: hardware verification, attestation systems, privacy-preserving compliance proofs, risk threshold frameworks, and international coordination…

Presentation by Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work, ESG-UQAM).

Screening of Writing Doom, a ~30-minute short film on AI, followed by discussion. Hosted by PauseAI Montréal.

48-hour hackathon on AI manipulation defense — building benchmarks, detection systems, and mitigations for sycophancy, deception, sandbagging, reward hacking, and dark patterns.

Presentation by Joaquim Streicher, Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience and co-founder of MONIC (Montreal Initiative for Consciousness science).

Presentation by Taylor Lynn Curtis, Mila researcher on misinformation. Explores AI systems designed for persuasion, then introduces Veracity — a real-world tool using AI to ensure data quality and…

Discussion of Scheffer et al.’s 2009 Nature review on critical transitions in complex systems.

Activity led by Emma Kondrup. Examining pessimistsarchive.org — newspaper headlines across technological eras (automobile, radio, TV) — to interrogate AI exceptionalism: are AI’s differential traits…

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety or governance — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

48-hour hackathon on defensive acceleration (def/acc): building technology to protect against pandemics, cybercrime, and powerful AI. Montréal site of Apart Research’s global hackathon.

Introduction to Neuronpedia (neuronpedia.org): sparse autoencoders, features, and feature pages.

Workshop to co-design a National Citizens’ Assembly on Superintelligence for Canada.

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety or governance — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

How does Canada’s 2025 federal budget address AI risk? Discussion mapping the AI-related budget items to threat models — power concentration, epistemics, bio, autonomy, misuse, systemic risk, and…

Reading group discussion of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Yudkowsky and Soares, hosted by Jeremy.

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

Walkthrough of the First Key Update of the International AI Safety Report (Oct 14, 2025): rapid gains in maths, coding, and scientific assistance from post-training reasoning techniques; the emergence…

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

Join us for a focused, hands-on “survey jam” to contribute your voice to the Government of Canada’s open consultation on the next AI strategy..

Launch event for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Yudkowsky and Soares (ifanyonebuildsit.com) — a case for why current paths toward superhuman AI could end in catastrophe.

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

What should "AGI" mean and how could we measure it? Presentation of agidefinition.ai, which operationalizes AGI as matching the cognitive versatility of a well-educated adult using the…

Nik Lacombe introduces the PauseAI movement and its Montréal group (pauseai.ca/montreal). PauseAI aims to mitigate AI risks by convincing governments to pause the development of superhuman AI.

Olivier Coutu presents aisafety.info: an introduction to existential risks from AI, a 300+ article FAQ, a friendly chatbot named Stampy, and a dataset of AI alignment resources.

Discussion of the Global Call for AI Red Lines (red-lines.ai), launched at UNGA-80 by Nobel laureates, former heads of state, and AI pioneers including Yoshua Bengio.

Evan Lombardi discusses how social media algorithms harm mental health and how AI amplifies these effects.

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

Samuel Gélineau presents Parity Bot (gelisam.com/parity-bot): demonstrating that a neural network can be formally verified to satisfy a safety property on all inputs, by adapting a range analysis…

Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus.

Orpheus presents the core ideas from "Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems" (arxiv.org/abs/2405.06624), followed by Q&A and open discussion.

Discussion of section 2.1 of the International AI Safety Report (January 2025) on risks from malicious use. Part of the AIGS Canada network.