# Events Canonical URL: Upcoming meetups, talks, and workshops Subscribe to calendar [Apple Calendar](webcal://aisafetymontreal.org/events/calendar.ics) [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r?cid=webcal%3A%2F%2Faisafetymontreal.org%2Fevents%2Fcalendar.ics) [Luma](https://luma.com/ai-safety-montreal) ## Upcoming - **Thu, Oct 15 · 12:30 PM (2026-10-15)**: [Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/5njchefx) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Étienne Langlois Format: In person Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. We have ingredients to prepare vegetarian sandwiches, plus we have snacks and coffee/tea. - **Thu, Oct 15 · 7:00 – 9:00 PM (2026-10-15)**: [AI 2027 Short Film & Discussion Evening](https://lu.ma/ss0brqx4) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Orpheus Lummis, HΩ Format: Hybrid A get-together where we will watch AI In Context’s We’re Not Ready for Superintelligence, a video essay summarizing the AI 2027 report published in April 2025. - **Sat, Oct 17 · 1:00 – 4:00 PM (2026-10-17)**: [Safe Agentic Workflows: From First Guardrails to Adversarial Oversight](https://lu.ma/r7e7cwoh) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Shafkat, Adnan Taha, Orpheus Lummis, HΩ Format: Hybrid Your agent can read the repo, run tests, and open a PR. Can it also merge, deploy, or email a customer? Most teams find out after something breaks. - **Wed, Oct 21 · 12:30 – 2:00 PM (2026-10-21)**: [Lunch talk: Alan Chan presents What If Automating AI R&D Triggers an Intelligence Explosion?](https://lu.ma/jio0a5cn) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Alan Chan, Orpheus Lummis, HΩ Format: Hybrid Lunch talk at Ω Labs: lunch from 12:30, then Alan Chan (GovAI) presents online from London at 1:00. Join us in person or online. Alan gives an overview of his recent paper What If Automating AI R&D Triggers an Intelligence Explosion? - **Wed, Oct 21 · 6:00 – 7:30 PM (2026-10-21)**: [AI Safety Technical Reading Group – Value Leakage: An LLM’s Answers Are Silently Shaped by Its Own Values](https://lu.ma/im75zw0s) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Olivier, Étienne Langlois, HΩ Format: Hybrid Each month, we gather to discuss an important technical AI safety paper. We recommend reading the paper before and to come with your commentary and insights. Discussion bilingue. - **Thu, Oct 22 · 6:00 – 8:00 PM (2026-10-22)**: [L’IA nous ment-elle?](https://lu.ma/k105wuvr) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Naïma Hassert, HΩ Format: Hybrid De nombreuses études montrent que les modèles de langue peuvent induire leurs utilisateurs en erreur : dans leurs réponses, ils affirment parfois sans nuance des choses fausses ou omettent des informations importantes; dans leurs chaînes de raisonnement, ils… - **Fri, Oct 23 – Oct 25 · 7:00 PM (2026-10-23/2026-10-25)**: [AI Collusion Research Sprint](https://lu.ma/om2ni1le) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Orpheus Lummis, HΩ Format: Hybrid The Montréal site of the AI Collusion Research Sprint by Apart Research. Spend the weekend at Ω Labs working in teams of 1 to 5 on experiments about collusion between AI agents: when it emerges and what causes it, what counts as convincing evidence of it in… - **Tue, Oct 27 · 6:00 – 8:00 PM (2026-10-27)**: [This Month in AI Safety / Les nouvelles du mois en sécurité de l’IA](https://lu.ma/0939cq8k) Venue: Ω Labs, 3813 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal Hosted by Étienne Langlois, HΩ Format: Hybrid The field of AI, including safety, is moving at an unprecedented pace. In an effort to keep the community up to date, Étienne will be hosting a bilingual recap presentation of the most important events that happened in the past month. ## Archive ## October 2026 - **Oct 8, 2026 (2026-10-08)**: [Students AI Safety Mixer](https://lu.ma/gbt3d63c) Venue: Ω Labs Ω Labs is hosting a students mixer on AI safety in collaboration with Sûreté de l’IA UQAM, AI Alignment McGill, and AI Safety Concordia. - **Oct 6, 2026 (2026-10-06)**: [AI Governance Reading Group – Verifying Restrictions on Frontier AI Research](https://lu.ma/hace3ksi) Venue: Ω Labs Format: Hybrid 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. - **Oct 1, 2026 (2026-10-01)**: [Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/5310xf7d) Venue: Ω Labs Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. ## September 2026 - **Sep 29, 2026 (2026-09-29)**: [Community progress review](https://lu.ma/99d28g34) Venue: Ω Labs First edition of the monthly Community progress review series, where members of the community come together to present their work of the past month, get feedback, and set their objectives for the… - **Sep 24, 2026 (2026-09-24)**: [Women in AI Safety Meet-up](https://lu.ma/scuwe3cn) Venue: Ω Labs Joignez-vous à nous pour une soirée conviviale célébrant les femmes et personnes s’identifiant comme femmes qui travaillent en sécurité de l’IA! - **Sep 24, 2026 (2026-09-24)**: [Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/3ygvcjkw) Venue: Ω Labs Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. - **Sep 22, 2026 (2026-09-22)**: [The Hugging Face Incident: a Summary](https://lu.ma/7v2xh786) Venue: Ω Labs The July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion by OpenAI agents under evaluation, and what investigations have found since. - **Sep 17, 2026 (2026-09-17)**: [Tamara Paris presents Don’t Trust the Process: When Verifiability Undermines AI Accountability](https://lu.ma/eiv25ohi) Venue: Ω Labs Tamara Paris (Mila) presents Don’t Trust the Process: When Verifiability Undermines AI Accountability, published at FAccT this summer. - **Sep 16, 2026 (2026-09-16)**: [ALL IN AI Safety Social](https://lu.ma/f1ofd40t) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Sep 15, 2026 (2026-09-15)**: [AI Governance Reading Group – The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI](https://lu.ma/thruvzro) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Sep 10, 2026 (2026-09-10)**: [RustConf AI Safety Social](https://lu.ma/mrd03fca) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Sep 10, 2026 (2026-09-10)**: [Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/s9mlsblt) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Sep 3, 2026 (2026-09-03)**: [LawZero presents Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor](https://lu.ma/k9oy7hxv) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Sep 3, 2026 (2026-09-03)**: [Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/goe14t26) Venue: Ω Labs Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. ## August 2026 - **Aug 27, 2026 (2026-08-27)**: [AI Governance RG: What AI evaluations for preventing catastrophic risks can and cannot do](https://lu.ma/pfckesxs) Venue: Ω Labs 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… - **Aug 25, 2026 (2026-08-25)**: [Canada AI Transparency Survey Jam](https://lu.ma/hyzvpxhn) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Aug 18, 2026 (2026-08-18)**: [AI Safety Speed-networking & social](https://lu.ma/jg8c8tn3) Venue: Ω Labs 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… - **Aug 13, 2026 (2026-08-13)**: [Introducing ControlAI Canada](https://lu.ma/qzwalj7h) Venue: Ω Labs ControlAI is a global advocacy non-profit working to prevent the extinction risk posed by superintelligence. - **Aug 11, 2026 (2026-08-11)**: [AI Safety Papers We Love #4 - Law-Following AI: Designing AI Agents to Obey Human Laws](https://lu.ma/pad87ub7) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Aug 6, 2026 (2026-08-06)**: [Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/vvkw1un5) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Aug 4, 2026 (2026-08-04)**: [The Human Line Project @ Omega Labs](https://lu.ma/yrh5o4pj) Venue: Ω Labs The Human Line Project is an organization dedicated to documenting and addressing AI-induced psychological harm. ## July 2026 - **Jul 30, 2026 (2026-07-30)**: [Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/urpl7el8) Venue: Ω Labs Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. - **Jul 26, 2026 (2026-07-26)**: [AI 2027 Tabletop Exercise](https://lu.ma/1dmc3gbg) Venue: Ω Labs A structured role-play of AI takeoff, month by month, built by the AI Futures Project. It’s January 2028. - **Jul 24 – 26, 2026 (2026-07-24/2026-07-26)**: [Secret Loyalties Hackathon](https://lu.ma/h38iedje) Venue: Ω Labs The Montréal node of the Secret Loyalties Hackathon, a weekend research sprint at Ω Labs, organized with Apart Research and Formation Research. - **Jul 21, 2026 (2026-07-21)**: [State of AI Safety in China](https://lu.ma/rxoi0553) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Jul 14, 2026 (2026-07-14)**: [AI Safety Speed-networking & social](https://lu.ma/q5063ob2) Venue: Ω Labs 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… - **Jul 14, 2026 (2026-07-14)**: [Ω Labs community lunch](https://lu.ma/ykb6xc63) Venue: Ω Labs Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. - **Jul 7, 2026 (2026-07-07)**: [Modern Lyceum: Multi-Disciplinary Panel Discussion on AI Productivity and Workforce Transformation](https://lu.ma/dm2dvyt7) Venue: Montréal 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… ## June 2026 - **Jun 29, 2026 (2026-06-29)**: [How AI could create the world’s biggest problems](https://lu.ma/7nu8jtzd) Venue: Ω Labs 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? - **Jun 18, 2026 (2026-06-18)**: [Ω Labs community lunch](https://lu.ma/l1a0xsg0) Venue: Ω Labs Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. - **Jun 11 – 18, 2026 (2026-06-11/2026-06-18)**: [AI Control Hackathon](https://lu.ma/ab2xlas3) Venue: Montréal 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. - **Jun 17, 2026 (2026-06-17)**: [AI Governance in 2026: What’s going on, why it’s a mess, and why it’s going to get messier](https://lu.ma/yssznx7y) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis Emerging technologies are always hard to govern, especially when their onset is crammed into a few intense years. - **Jun 15, 2026 (2026-06-15)**: [AI Safety Papers We Love #2: The Deepfakes We Missed & How to Stop Playing Whack-a-Mole](https://lu.ma/lgafiixl) Venue: Ω Labs 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. - **Jun 11, 2026 (2026-06-11)**: [Ω Labs community lunch](https://lu.ma/gfjotdm0) Venue: Ω Labs Lunch at Ω Labs: eat with people of the Montréal’s AI safety and governance community. The formula is bring your own lunch. - **Jun 9, 2026 (2026-06-09)**: [Discussion on Canada’s AI for All strategy](https://lu.ma/bpt4xvd1) Venue: Ω Labs Canada has released its national AI strategy, "AI for All," anchored in three principles: trust, opportunity, and sovereignty. - **Jun 4, 2026 (2026-06-04)**: [Ω Labs community lunch](https://lu.ma/kdm6jel7) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis 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. - **Jun 2, 2026 (2026-06-02)**: [METR’s Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)](https://lu.ma/h97d5e7c) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis METR’s Frontier Risk Report (Feb-Mar 2026), published May 19, is the first third-party assessment of frontier developers’ internal AI agent deployments. ## May 2026 - **May 28, 2026 (2026-05-28)**: [AI Safety Montréal Show-and-Tell](https://lu.ma/6105jbuy) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis 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. - **May 22 – 24, 2026 (2026-05-22/2026-05-24)**: [The Secure Program Synthesis Hackathon](https://lu.ma/4q2fnc39) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis The Montréal node of the Secure Program Synthesis Hackathon, a weekend research sprint at Ω Labs, organized with Apart Research and Atlas Computing. - **May 19, 2026 (2026-05-19)**: [Understanding and Addressing Fairwashing in Machine Learning](https://lu.ma/057okge3) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis Fairwashing refers to the risk that an unfair black-box model can be explained by a fairer model through post-hoc explanation manipulation. - **May 7, 2026 (2026-05-07)**: [Ω Labs community lunch](https://lu.ma/fctnw0jq) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis 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. - **May 6, 2026 (2026-05-06)**: [AI Safety Papers We Love #1: Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI](https://lu.ma/dnz5hly3) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis 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… - **May 1, 2026 (2026-05-01)**: [Ω Labs Opening Potluck](https://lu.ma/gpzbhynn) Venue: 3813 R. Saint-Denis 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. ## April 2026 - **Apr 28, 2026 (2026-04-28)**: [AI and Persuasion: Capabilities and Mitigation](https://lu.ma/d5977tlk) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy Type: Talk Jean-François Godbout (Université de Montréal + Mila) explores the persuasive effects of generative AI, including deepfakes, automated influence, and AI-assisted propaganda, alongside mitigation… - **Apr 14, 2026 (2026-04-14)**: [Greywall: AI Agent Sandboxing & Aligning Capability with Security](https://lu.ma/jy9upxoh) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy Type: Talk Max (Greyhaven) presents Greywall, a software-defined sandbox and proxy for AI agents that provides fine-grained runtime visibility and controls. ## March 2026 - **Mar 20 – 22, 2026 (2026-03-20/2026-03-22)**: [AI Control Hackathon](https://lu.ma/mhitd3xv) Venue: FOULAB Hackerspace Type: Hackathon Three-day hackathon to develop control protocols, build evaluation tools, and stress-test safety measures using ControlArena and SHADE-Arena. - **Mar 19, 2026 (2026-03-19)**: [Artificial Intelligence: Where Does Consciousness Begin?](https://lu.ma/65onadea) Venue: Université de Montréal - Campus MIL Type: Talk A discussion on artificial intelligence and the notion of consciousness — where does it begin? - **Mar 17, 2026 (2026-03-17)**: [Atelier: Canadian AI Incident Monitor Review](https://lu.ma/nx8o8zco) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon President-Kennedy Type: Workshop Working session to critically review CAIM’s initial records — debate borderline cases, calibrate severity ratings, identify gaps, and flag records needing further work. - **Mar 10, 2026 (2026-03-10)**: [What should Montréal’s role be in AI safety?](https://lu.ma/xsp1dhyz) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon President-Kennedy 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… - **Mar 6, 2026 (2026-03-06)**: [AI Safety Coworking & Bouldering](https://lu.ma/u26vrg54) Venue: Bloc Shop Mile-Ex 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. - **Mar 3, 2026 (2026-03-03)**: [When Is a Human Actually "Overseeing" an AI System?](https://lu.ma/7kugvplz) Venue: Maison du développement durable Type: Talk Shalaleh Rismani (McGill/Mila) presents research on how humans actually oversee AI systems — finding that greater understanding doesn’t necessarily lead to better oversight. ## February 2026 - **Feb 24, 2026 (2026-02-24)**: [How the Future Rights of AI Workers will also Protect Human Rights](https://lu.ma/hcrp5nmu) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy Panel discussion on rights balancing: how frameworks protecting AI workers also reinforce human rights protections. Speakers include Heather Alexander and Jonathan Simon. - **Feb 20, 2026 (2026-02-20)**: [AI Safety Coworking & Bouldering](https://lu.ma/ym80xupc) Venue: Bloc Shop Mile-Ex Bring your laptop and your climbing shoes. Work on AI safety projects in good company, then boulder together. - **Feb 17, 2026 (2026-02-17)**: [What Hackers Talk About When They Talk About AI](https://lu.ma/gifbf18i) Venue: UQAM Pavillon Président-Kennedy Presentation by Benoît Dupont (Canada Research Chair in Cyber-Resilience, UdeM). - **Feb 6, 2026 (2026-02-06)**: [AI Safety Coworking & Bouldering](https://lu.ma/8nztwanh) Venue: Bloc Shop Mile-Ex 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. - **Feb 3, 2026 (2026-02-03)**: [AI Pluralism: What Models Do, Who Decides, and Why It Matters](https://lu.ma/azd9irwp) Venue: UQAM Pavillon Président-Kennedy Presentation by Rashid Mushkani (UdeM + Mila). Discussion on who decides model behavior and by what criteria. - **Jan 30 – Feb 1, 2026 (2026-01-30/2026-02-01)**: [The Technical AI Governance Challenge](https://lu.ma/yyrdzld4) Venue: Private home Weekend hackathon on technical AI governance infrastructure: hardware verification, attestation systems, privacy-preserving compliance proofs, risk threshold frameworks, and international coordination… ## January 2026 - **Jan 27, 2026 (2026-01-27)**: [Living with Digital Surveillance in China](https://lu.ma/5vtq60el) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy Presentation by Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work, ESG-UQAM). - **Jan 25, 2026 (2026-01-25)**: [Writing Doom watch party](https://lu.ma/bl0h3b3w) Venue: Private home Screening of Writing Doom, a ~30-minute short film on AI, followed by discussion. Hosted by PauseAI Montréal. - **Jan 9 – 11, 2026 (2026-01-09/2026-01-11)**: [AI Manipulation Hackathon](https://lu.ma/mf69p5pi) Venue: Private home 48-hour hackathon on AI manipulation defense — building benchmarks, detection systems, and mitigations for sycophancy, deception, sandbagging, reward hacking, and dark patterns. ## December 2025 - **Dec 16, 2025 (2025-12-16)**: [Can AI systems be conscious? How could we know? And why does it matter?](https://lu.ma/paky3mih) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy Presentation by Joaquim Streicher, Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience and co-founder of MONIC (Montreal Initiative for Consciousness science). - **Dec 2, 2025 (2025-12-02)**: [Veracity in the Age of Persuasive AI](https://lu.ma/mmuqltzq) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy 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… ## November 2025 - **Nov 27, 2025 (2025-11-27)**: [Tipping Points & Early Warnings: Complex Systems Theory on Catastrophic Transitions](https://lu.ma/5j76cwde) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Discussion of Scheffer et al.’s 2009 Nature review on critical transitions in complex systems. - **Nov 25, 2025 (2025-11-25)**: [Pessimists Archive](https://lu.ma/nq50jf0u) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy 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… - **Nov 25, 2025 (2025-11-25)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/usq1mqa8) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety or governance — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Nov 22 – 23, 2025 (2025-11-22/2025-11-23)**: [Defensive Acceleration Hackathon](https://lu.ma/gnyqha4a) Venue: Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University 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. - **Nov 20, 2025 (2025-11-20)**: [Neuronpedia 101](https://lu.ma/s3umszm7) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Introduction to Neuronpedia (neuronpedia.org): sparse autoencoders, features, and feature pages. - **Nov 18, 2025 (2025-11-18)**: [Co-design a National Citizens’ Assembly on Superintelligence](https://lu.ma/0b7muzt0) Venue: 4449 Rue Berri Workshop to co-design a National Citizens’ Assembly on Superintelligence for Canada. - **Nov 18, 2025 (2025-11-18)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/bwf6bp7q) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety or governance — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Nov 13, 2025 (2025-11-13)**: [Canada’s 2025 Budget vs AI risk](https://lu.ma/3tivj3yf) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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… - **Nov 11, 2025 (2025-11-11)**: [If Anyone Reads It, Everyone’s Welcome](https://lu.ma/tsyuxdvn) Venue: Private home Reading group discussion of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Yudkowsky and Soares, hosted by Jeremy. - **Nov 11, 2025 (2025-11-11)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/47tyswzj) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Nov 7, 2025 (2025-11-07)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/1yglbj8r) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Nov 4, 2025 (2025-11-04)**: [International AI Safety Report – First Key Update](https://lu.ma/09j4095g) Venue: 4449 Rue Berri 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… ## October 2025 - **Oct 31, 2025 (2025-10-31)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/lmbkt1dy) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Oct 30, 2025 (2025-10-30)**: [Canada’s AI Strategy Survey Jam](https://lu.ma/gagi7n16) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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.. - **Oct 28, 2025 (2025-10-28)**: [If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies](https://lu.ma/wp1hnm5e) Venue: UQAM - Pavillon Président-Kennedy 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. - **Oct 24, 2025 (2025-10-24)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/g96pkw5f) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Oct 23, 2025 (2025-10-23)**: [A Definition of AGI](https://lu.ma/yx5czfoe) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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… - **Oct 21, 2025 (2025-10-21)**: [Introducing PauseAI Montréal](https://lu.ma/6vx6ox58) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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. - **Oct 16, 2025 (2025-10-16)**: [Introducing aisafety.info](https://lu.ma/1ig3al6o) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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. - **Oct 14, 2025 (2025-10-14)**: [Global Call for AI Red Lines](https://lu.ma/vjgi2npr) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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. - **Oct 7, 2025 (2025-10-07)**: [Social Media Safety and the Unplug Project](https://lu.ma/wml46dhl) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Evan Lombardi discusses how social media algorithms harm mental health and how AI amplifies these effects. - **Oct 3, 2025 (2025-10-03)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/jjftn803) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Oct 2, 2025 (2025-10-02)**: [Verifying a toy neural network](https://lu.ma/bc8rlwxr) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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… ## September 2025 - **Sep 26, 2025 (2025-09-26)**: [AI Safety Coworking](https://lu.ma/4pvkvd30) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM Coworking session for anyone working on AI safety — research, engineering, policy, or field-building. Light collaboration or quiet focus. - **Sep 16, 2025 (2025-09-16)**: [Towards Guaranteed Safe AI](https://lu.ma/exh4xs42) Venue: Bibliothèque des sciences de l’UQAM 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. ## May 2025 - **May 27, 2025 (2025-05-27)**: [International AI Safety Report - Risks from malicious use](https://lu.ma/2rjkth02) Venue: La Fontaine Park Discussion of section 2.1 of the International AI Safety Report (January 2025) on risks from malicious use. Part of the AIGS Canada network.