Newsletter

Monthly research highlights, local events, and community news.

Events

Upcoming meetups, talks, and workshops

Organizations

Montréal's AI safety ecosystem: research labs, policy institutes, and community groups

• AI Safety Reading Group (Mila) Academic Research

  Biweekly research seminar series at Mila inviting authors to present their own AI safety papers.
• AI Alignment McGill (AIAM) Community Events Education

  Student club at McGill focused on AI alignment and safety; organizes reading groups, hackathons and related activities.
• Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Government Research Policy Regulation

  Federal government AI safety institute. Funds research through CIFAR and NRC programs, develops safety tools/guidance. Member of International Network of AI Safety Institutes.
• CEIMIA Nonprofit Policy

  Independent organization managing Montréal hub of GPAI Network of Centres. Implements high-impact applied projects for responsible AI based on ethics and human rights.
• CIFAR — AI & Society Academic Research Policy

  Program under Pan-Canadian AI Strategy that convenes interdisciplinary meetings and publishes reports on AI's societal impacts for policymakers and public.
• McGill Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy (CMTD) Academic Research Policy

  Research centre at McGill's Max Bell School focused on AI governance, transparency and democratic oversight. Publishes analyses and convenes workshops informing Canadian and international policy.
• Encode Canada Community Events Education

  Youth-led group that builds AI literacy and early-career capacity through student fellowships, hands-on workshops, public events, and creative programs.
• Goodheart AI Startup Research

  Goodheart is building AI systems to safely accelerate R&D of defensive technologies to create a world robust to powerful AI.
• Horizon Omega (HΩ) Nonprofit Events

  Montréal-based nonprofit hub supporting local AI safety, ethics and governance community through meetups, coworking, workshops and collaborations.
• IVADO — R³AI / R10: AI Safety & Alignment Academic Research

  Multi-year research program on AI safety across axes: evaluating harmful behaviors, understanding AI decision-making, algorithmic approaches for safe AI.
• Krueger AI Safety Lab (KASL) Academic Research

  Technical AI safety research group at Mila led by David Krueger. Research in misgeneralization, mechanistic interpretability, and reward specification.
• LawZero Nonprofit Research

  Nonprofit AI safety research organization launched by Yoshua Bengio. Focuses on non-agentic 'Scientist AI' architecture as alternative to frontier lab approaches.
• Montréal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) Nonprofit Policy

  International non-profit founded 2018 that equips citizens concerned about AI and its societal impacts to take action. Produces AI Ethics Brief and State of AI Ethics reports.
• Mila – Québec AI Institute Academic Research Events

  Academic deep learning research center with 140+ affiliated professors. Technical alignment, interpretability, responsible AI development.
• OBVIA Academic Research Policy

  Inter-university observatory on societal impacts of AI. Network of researchers from Quebec institutions publishing research across 7 thematic hubs.
• Montréal AI Governance, Ethics & Safety Meetup Nonprofit Events

  Public meetup community hosting talks, workshops, discussions on AI governance, ethics and safety. Co-organized with Horizon Omega.
• PauseAI Montréal Nonprofit Events Advocacy

  Volunteer community advocating to mitigate AI risks and pause development of superhuman AI until safe.