Applications end October 8th at 23:59 EDT. This is an in-person course in Montréal, organized and facilitated by AI Safety Montréal, using the AGI Strategy curriculum by BlueDot Impact. Classes and co...

EN: 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…

[English to follow below / L'anglais suit plus bas] Joignez-vous à nous pour une soirée conviviale célébrant les femmes et personnes s'identifiant comme femmes…

EN 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…

One of the most concerning misalignment incidents to date, the Hugging Face hack by a rogue agents swarm and its surrounding context have had several new…

AI Governance Reading Group Each month, we gather to discuss an important AI governance paper. We recommend reading the paper before and to come with your…

The Montréal node of the AI Incident Response Sprint, a weekend research sprint at Ω Labs, organized with Apart Research and CeSIA. Turn the first documented…

Containment Verification: AI Safety Guarantees Independent of Alignment Royce Moon – Enclave Intelligence, University of Michigan AI safety today is…

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

EN 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…

EN 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…

EN Researchers from LawZero will present their recent paper Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor which details the Scientist AI…

EN First session of the AI Governance Reading Group. What AI evaluations for preventing catastrophic risks can and cannot do (Peter Barnett, Lisa Thiergart)…

Canada's official survey link: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/have-your-say-advancing-ai-transparency-canada EN: Join us for a focused, hands-on…

Public Perceptions of AI Consciousness and Moral Status in the US and China Presentation by Ali Ladak, a researcher at the Sentience Institute and a PhD…

Verifiable AI-Enabled Autonomous Systems with Conformal Prediction Lars Lindemann – ETH Zurich Accelerated by rapid advances in machine learning and AI, there…

EN ControlAI is a global advocacy non-profit working to prevent the extinction risk posed by superintelligence. There will be a short presentation on the work…

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

EN 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…

EN 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…

GSAI Mixer #1: lightning talks & open conversation An informal mixer for the Guaranteed Safe AI community. Format: arrival & framing a handful of 5-minute…

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…

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

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Digital Minds: Preparing for a Moral Challenge Before It Arrives Presentation by Soenke Ziesche, PhD in AI (University of Hamburg), longtime United Nations…

Canada has released its national AI strategy, "AI for All," anchored in three principles: trust, opportunity, and sovereignty. Join us for a structured open…

AI Control Hackathon 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…

Emerging technologies are always hard to govern, especially when their onset is crammed into a few intense years. With AI, policymakers, thus far, have…

Measuring Machine Consciousness Presentation by Cameron Berg, Founder and Director of Reciprocal Research, Research Affiliate at Eleos AI, and Research Fellow…

Next Steps for AI Welfare Research By Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection,…

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

Formal Guarantees for Frontier AI Gagandeep Singh – Assistant Professor at UIUC, develops formal certification, monitoring, and synthesis methods for frontier…

AI Safety Papers We Love, a biweekly reading group: we pick papers we appreciate about AI safety, broadly construed (technical alignment, governance,…

Provably Safe Neural Network Controllers via Differential Dynamic Logic Samuel Teuber – PhD Candidate, Institute of Information Security and Dependability…

AI Control hackathon with Apart and Redwood, Mila youth safety hackathon, and five events in Montréal. Bengio chairs the second International AI Safety Report. Six new papers from Mila, McGill, and Ud...

Benchmarks for AI-assisted Formal Verification Theodore Ehrenborg – AI Safety researcher at the Beneficial AI Foundation and PIBBSS LLMs have shown promise at…

Présentation par Shalaleh Rismani, postdoctoral researcher at McGill and Mila, working at the intersection of system safety, human-computer interaction, and…

Rights Balancing: How the Future Rights of AI Workers will also Protect Human Rights Talk by Heather Alexander and Jonathan Simon, co-founders of Future of…

What hackers talk about when they talk about AI: Early-stage diffusion of a cybercrime innovation Talk by Benoît Dupont, Canada Research Chair in…

EN Working on something related to AI safety or governance (e.g. research, engineering, policy)? Join us for a coworking & bouldering session. We meet at…

Français (English follows) Cette infolettre mensuelle détaille les progrès récents et les événements à venir en sûreté, éthique et gouvernance de l'IA à Montréal. Événements à venir AI Plural...

AI Pluralism: What Models Do, Who Decides, and Why It Matters A talk by Rashid Mushkani, AI & Urban Studies PhD Candidate @ University of Montréal and Mila AI…

This is the Montréal edition of the global The Technical AI Governance Challenge, which is described below. The hackathon will occur Friday evening to Sunday…

EN A presentation by Ariane Ollier-Malaterre: Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This book explores how Chinese…

This is the Montréal edition of the AI Manipulation Hackathon. Friday evening to Sunday midday. RSVP here and on the official page to be admissible. Location…

What is HΩ?

EN Joaquim Streicher, Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience and co-founder of Montreal Initiative for Consciousness science (MONIC) will give the following…

EN Veracity in the Age of Persuasive AI A presentation by Taylor Lynn Curtis, researcher on misinformation at Mila. This presentation addresses the growing…

Safe Learning Under Irreversible Dynamics via Asking for Help Benjamin Plaut – Postdoc at CHAI studying guaranteed-safe AI Most online learning algorithms with…