# AI Safety Montréal

Canonical URL: <https://aisafetymontreal.org/>

A Montréal community working on AI safety, ethics, and governance. We host meetups, talks, and workshops, run a coworking space, and offer 1‑on‑1 advising.

[Join the community →](https://forms.horizonomega.org/aisafetymontreal-join)

[See upcoming events →](https://aisafetymontreal.org/events/) [New to AI safety? Start here →](https://aisafetymontreal.org/start/)

## Upcoming events

- [Students AI Safety Mixer](https://lu.ma/gbt3d63c): Thu, Oct 8 · 6:00 PM Ω Labs

- [Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking](https://lu.ma/5njchefx): Thu, Oct 15 · 12:30 PM Ω Labs

- [AI 2027 Short Film & Discussion Evening](https://lu.ma/ss0brqx4): Thu, Oct 15 · 7:00 PM Ω Labs

- [Safe Agentic Workflows: From First Guardrails to Adversarial Oversight](https://lu.ma/r7e7cwoh): Sat, Oct 17 · 1:00 PM Ω Labs

- [Community progress review](https://lu.ma/kt5usp4q): Tue, Oct 20 · 7:00 PM Ω Labs

[Full calendar →](https://aisafetymontreal.org/events/)

## What is AI safety?

AI safety is the work of reducing the risk that increasingly capable AI systems cause harm, including severe and irreversible harm.

The main risks it deals with:

- **Misalignment and loss of control**: Systems pursuing goals their developers didn’t intend, including evading oversight or resisting correction.
- **Misuse**: People using AI to cause harm, such as cyberattacks or help building biological weapons.
- **Concentration of power**: AI used as a tool to make society less democratic, or even taking the wheel itself.
- **Mistakes**: Systems that fail in ordinary ways, in settings where failure is costly.

[Read more on the About page →](https://aisafetymontreal.org/about/#ai-safety)

## Programs

[All programs →](https://aisafetymontreal.org/programs/)

- [AGI Strategy course](https://aisafetymontreal.org/programs/#agiStrategy): Free 5-week introductory cohort at Ω Labs, October 12 to November 9. Apply by October 8.

- [AI Governance Reading Group](https://aisafetymontreal.org/ai-governance-reading-group/): A monthly discussion of one AI governance paper, at Ω Labs or online.

- [Technical AI Safety Reading Group](https://aisafetymontreal.org/technical-ai-safety-reading-group/): Starting soon: a monthly discussion of one technical AI safety paper, at Ω Labs or online.

- [Coworking & event space](https://labs.horizonomega.org/): Work at Ω Labs, our coworking and events space. Your first day is free.

- [Workshops & hackathons](https://luma.com/ai-safety-montreal): Hands-on sessions: interpretability, evaluations, governance.

- [1‑on‑1 advising](https://cal.com/orpheuslummis/ai-safety-intro-call): Book a 1‑on‑1 with an organizer to find your next step.

## AI safety in Montréal, monthly

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[Latest edition October 2026 Ten events at Ω Labs in October: two reading groups, a student mixer, an AI 2027 evening, a workshop on agent safety, Naïma Hassert's talk on whether LLMs lie, and a…](https://aisafetymontreal.org/newsletter/2026-10-october/)

- [September 2026](https://aisafetymontreal.org/newsletter/2026-09-september/)
- [August 2026](https://aisafetymontreal.org/newsletter/2026-08-august/)

[All editions →](https://aisafetymontreal.org/newsletter/)

## The Montréal ecosystem

[Explore all 17 organizations →](https://aisafetymontreal.org/ecosystem/)

Research labs, policy institutes, student groups, and community organizations working on AI safety, ethics, and governance in and around Montréal.

### Academic

- [AI Safety Reading Group (Mila)](https://mamerzouk.github.io/ai-safety-rg/)
- [International Centre of Expertise in Montréal for the Advancement of AI (CEIMIA)](https://ceimia.org/en/)
- [International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI (OBVIA)](https://www.obvia.ca/en)
- [IVADO R³AI / R10: AI Safety & Alignment](https://ivado.ca/en/regroupements/ai-safety-and-alignment/)
- [Laboratory for the Future of Citizenship](https://futureofcitizenship.net/)
- [Mila – Québec AI Institute](https://mila.quebec/en)

### Nonprofit

- [Horizon Omega (HΩ)](https://www.horizonomega.org/)
- [LawZero](https://lawzero.org/en)
- [Tara Research](https://tararesearch.org/)

### Advocacy

- [ControlAI (Canada)](https://controlai.org/our-work-in-canada)
- [PauseAI Montréal](https://pauseai.ca/)

### Government

- [Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI)](https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/canadian-artificial-intelligence-safety-institute)

### Community

- [AI Safety Montréal](https://aisafetymontreal.org/about/)
- [Montréal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI)](https://montrealethics.ai/)

### Student groups

- [AI Alignment McGill (AIAM)](https://linktr.ee/alignmentmcgill)
- [Sûreté de l’IA UQAM (SIA-UQAM)](https://linktr.ee/siauqam)