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Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking Thursday August 6th, 12:30 to 4:30 PM, Ω Labs. Lunch with people of Montréal's AI safety and governance community. Bring your own lunch. Stay for an afternoon of AI safety coworking. luma.com/vvkw1un5
Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking · Luma
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…
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Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking Thursday July 30, 12:30 to 4:30 PM, Ω Labs. Lunch with people of Montréal's AI safety and governance community. Bring your own lunch. New: stay for an afternoon of AI safety coworking. luma.com/urpl7el8
Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking · Luma
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…
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GSAI Mixer #1: Lightning talks and open conversation, for the Guaranteed Safe AI community. A handful of 5-minute talks, then small-group breakouts. Thursday July 23, 1-2 PM EDT, on Zoom. luma.com/enczy3q2
GSAI Mixer #1 · Zoom · Luma
GSAI Mixer #1: lightning talks & open conversation An informal mixer for the Guaranteed Safe AI community. Format: arrival & framing a handful of 5-minute…
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Montréal AI safety event, Tuesday July 21, 6 PM: State of AI Safety in China A walk through Concordia AI's July 2026 report: domestic and international governance, technical safety research, expert views, industry governance. At Ω Labs and on Zoom. luma.com/rxoi0553
State of AI Safety in China · Luma
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…
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Secret Loyalties Hackathon (Montréal edition) A model has a secret loyalty when it has been intentionally caused to advance a specific principal's interests without this being disclosed. Fri Jul 24 to Sun 26 RSVP: luma.com/h38iedje
Secret Loyalties Hackathon · Luma
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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We ran the AI Control Hackathon 2026: ~50 people, 8 teams, one week building monitors and attacks for untrusted AI agents. Congrats to winners IIT, Sea Blue & Alpha Nova, and thanks to our sponsors! Full retrospective below: horizonomega.substack.com/p/ai-control...
AI Control Hackathon 2026 retrospective
In short
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Digital Minds: Preparing for a Moral Challenge Before It Arrives Presented by Soenke Ziesche Beyond AI suffering: what interests might DM have? How should society treat them? Who safeguards their welfare? Followed by a @sentfutures.bsky.social mixer Tue Jul 21, 1 PM EDT luma.com/3deme2sa
Digital Minds: Preparing for a Moral Challenge Before It Arrives – Soenke Ziesche (ft. Sentient Social) · Zoom · Luma
Digital Minds: Preparing for a Moral Challenge Before It Arrives Presentation by Soenke Ziesche, PhD in AI (University of Hamburg), longtime United Nations…
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Discussion on Canada's AI for All strategy Join us for a structured open discussion of the strategy and how well it addresses safety, oversight, and the public interest in Canada. Tue Jun 9, 7PM, at Ω Labs RSVP: luma.com/bpt4xvd1
Discussion on Canada's AI for All strategy · Luma
Canada has released its national AI strategy, "AI for All," anchored in three principles: trust, opportunity, and sovereignty. Join us for a structured open…
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AI Control Hackathon, by HΩ x HackOS A one-week 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. Thu Jun 11 to Jun 18, with a talk from Henri Lemoine (EquiStamp, Mila) Register: luma.com/ab2xlas3
AI Control Hackathon · Luma
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…
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AI Governance in 2026: What’s going on, why it’s a mess, and why it’s going to get messier By @scasper.bsky.social, AI safety researcher, incoming asst. prof. of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Berkman Klein fellow, MIT PhD Wednesday June 17, 7PM, at Ω Labs and online luma.com/yssznx7y
AI Governance in 2026: What’s going on, why it’s a mess, and why it’s going to get messier · Luma
Emerging technologies are always hard to govern, especially when their onset is crammed into a few intense years. With AI, policymakers, thus far, have…
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Upcoming AI Welfare Seminar: Measuring Machine Consciousness by Cameron Berg, Founder and Director of Reciprocal Research Tuesday June 16, 1PM Eastern luma.com/kcdncrut
Measuring Machine Consciousness – Cameron Berg · Zoom · Luma
Measuring Machine Consciousness Presentation by Cameron Berg, Founder and Director of Reciprocal Research, Research Affiliate at Eleos AI, and Research Fellow…
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Next Steps for AI Welfare Research by @jeffsebo.bsky.social, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, New York University Our 1st edition of the AI Welfare Seminars: presentations on AI welfare, consciousness and moral status. Tuesday, May 19, 1PM EDT, on Zoom RSVP luma.com/sc15vlr8
Next Steps for AI Welfare Research – Jeff Sebo · Zoom · Luma
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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We are opening Ω Labs, a cowork, event, and meeting space for the AI safety and governance community of Montréal. Nous ouvrons Ω Labs, un espace pour le cotravail, les événements, et les rencontres pour la communauté montréalaise de sûreté et gouvernance de l'IA.
Ω Labs is open in Montréal
Find more info on labs.horizonomega.org
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The Secure Program Synthesis Hackathon Montréal edition at Ω Labs Friday May 22 6pm to Sunday At the intersection of program synthesis, formal methods, security. Tracks: Spec Elicitation, Spec Validation, Spec-Driven Development, Adversarial Robustness for ITPs and proof tools luma.com/4q2fnc39
The Secure Program Synthesis Hackathon · Luma
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…
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Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, May 2026: Formal Guarantees for Frontier AI Gagandeep Singh – Assistant Professor at UIUC, develops formal certification, monitoring, and synthesis methods for frontier AI systems Thursday, May 14, 1PM EDT RSVP: luma.com/euzt6ey7
Formal Guarantees for Frontier AI · Zoom · Luma
Formal Guarantees for Frontier AI Gagandeep Singh – Assistant Professor at UIUC, develops formal certification, monitoring, and synthesis methods for frontier…
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AI Safety Papers We Love, a new reading group in Montréal. First edition on Wed May 6 18:30 at Ω Labs: Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI, Hammond et al (2025), presented by Orpheus. luma.com/dnz5hly3
AI Safety Papers We Love #1: Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI · Luma
AI Safety Papers We Love, a biweekly reading group: we pick papers we appreciate about AI safety, broadly construed (technical alignment, governance,…
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Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, April 2026: Provably Safe Neural Network Controllers via Differential Dynamic Logic Samuel Teuber – PhD Candidate, Institute of Information Security and Dependability (KASTEL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Thursday, April 9, 1 PM EDT RSVP: luma.com/920d2h7p
Provably Safe Neural Network Controllers via Differential Dynamic Logic · Zoom · Luma
Provably Safe Neural Network Controllers via Differential Dynamic Logic Samuel Teuber – PhD Candidate, Institute of Information Security and Dependability…
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Montréal AI safety, ethics, and governance newsletter, March 2026 edition - Intl. AI Safety Report: risk mgmt still voluntary - 5 Montréal AI safety events this month - CIFAR puts $1M toward alignment research - Local papers on interpretability & hallucinations aisafetymontreal.org/newsletter/2...
March 2026 - Montréal AI safety, ethics, governance
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...
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Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, March 2026: Benchmarks for AI-assisted Formal Verification By Theodore Ehrenborg, AI Safety researcher at the Beneficial AI Foundation and PIBBSS Thursday, March 12, 1PM EST luma.com/nk8ce7so
Benchmarks for AI-assisted Formal Verification · Zoom · Luma
Benchmarks for AI-assisted Formal Verification Theodore Ehrenborg – AI Safety researcher at the Beneficial AI Foundation and PIBBSS LLMs have shown promise at…
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Montréal AI safety event, Tuesday March 3rd, 7 PM: When Is a Human Actually “Overseeing” an AI System? By @shalalehrismani.bsky.social postdoc at McGill+Mila, working on system safety, HCI, and the societal impact of AI, and executive director of the Open Roboethics Institute. luma.com/7kugvplz
When Is a Human Actually “Overseeing” an AI System? · Luma
Présentation par Shalaleh Rismani, postdoctoral researcher at McGill and Mila, working at the intersection of system safety, human-computer interaction, and…
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Montréal AI safety event, Tuesday Feb 24, 7 PM: Rights Balancing: How the Future Rights of AI Workers will also Protect Human Rights By Jonathan Simon assist. prof. at Philosophy UdeM and Heather Alexander, human rights lawyer. Co-founders of @futureofcit.bsky.social. luma.com/hcrp5nmu
Rights Balancing: How the Future Rights of AI Workers will also Protect Human Rights · Luma
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…
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Montréal AI safety event, Tuesday Feb 17, 7 PM: What hackers talk about when they talk about AI: Early-stage diffusion of a cybercrime innovation Talk by Benoît Dupont, Chair in Cyber-resilience, Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership director, and Criminology prof at UdeM. luma.com/gifbf18i
What hackers talk about when they talk about AI: Early-stage diffusion of a cybercrime innovation · Luma
What hackers talk about when they talk about AI: Early-stage diffusion of a cybercrime innovation Talk by Benoît Dupont, Canada Research Chair in…
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For the Montréal AI safety community: let's meet on some Fridays for coworking + bouldering, starting this week. Pour la communauté montréalaise de la sûreté de l'IA : retrouvons-nous certains vendredis pour du coworking et de l’escalade de bloc, commençant cette semaine. luma.com/8nztwanh
AI Safety Coworking & Bouldering · Luma
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…
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Lancement de l'infolettre Montréal AI safety, ethics, governance. Mensuelle, sur les événements, opportunités, politique et recherche. Launching the Montréal AI safety, ethics, governance newsletter. Monthly on events, opportunities, policy, research. newsletter.aisafetymontreal.org/fevrier-2026/
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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...
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Montréal AI safety event, Tuesday Feb 3, 7 PM: AI Pluralism: What Models Do, Who Decides, and Why It Matters Talk by Rashid Mushkani, AI & Urban Studies PhD Candidate @ University of Montréal and Mila luma.com/azd9irwp
AI Pluralism: What Models Do, Who Decides, and Why It Matters · Luma
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…
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The Technical AI Governance Challenge A weekend build-sprint to create verifiable AI safety compliance tools: compute/hardware tracking, privacy-preserving proofs, risk monitoring, and cross-border verification. Montréal edition, Fri Jan 30 eve to Sun afternoon RSVP: luma.com/yyrdzld4
The Technical AI Governance Challenge · Luma
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…
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Montréal AI safety event, Tuesday Jan 27, 7 PM: Living with Digital Surveillance in China A presentation by @arianeollier.bsky.social, Prof and Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work at ESG-UQAM luma.com/5vtq60el
Living with Digital Surveillance in China · Luma
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…
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AI Manipulation Hackathon (Montréal edition, Friday evening to to Sunday midday) Build benchmarks, detection + mitigations against deception/sycophancy/sandbagging/dark patterns. $2000 prizes + possible Apart Fellowship + Paris workshop slot. RSVP: luma.com/mf69p5pi
AI Manipulation Hackathon · Luma
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…
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HΩ's year in review In 2025, we produced the Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, cultivated the Montréal AI safety community, realized the Limits to Control workshop, and more. We are also moving from a volunteer org to one with more capacity. Onward to 2026! horizonomega.substack.com/p/h-2025-rev...
HΩ 2025 Review
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Montréal event, Tuesday December 16, 7 PM: Can AI systems be conscious? How could we know? And why does it matter? A presentation by @joaquimstreicher.bsky.social, Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience and co-founder of Montréal Initiative for Consciousness science (MONIC) luma.com/paky3mih
Can AI systems be conscious? How could we know? And why does it matter? · Luma
EN Joaquim Streicher, Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience and co-founder of Montreal Initiative for Consciousness science (MONIC) will give the following…
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