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

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 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

Upcoming AI Welfare Seminar: Measuring Machine Consciousness by Cameron Berg, Founder and Director of Reciprocal Research Tuesday June 16, 1PM Eastern luma.com/kcdncrut

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Montréal event, Tuesday December 2, 7 PM: Veracity in the Age of Persuasive AI – a presentation by Taylor Lynn Curtis, researcher on misinformation at Mila. luma.com/mmuqltzq

Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, December 2025: Safe Learning Under Irreversible Dynamics via Asking for Help Benjamin Plaut – Postdoc at CHAI studying guaranteed safe AI Thursday, December 11, 1 PM EST luma.com/wcww6xpl

"When AI met Automated Reasoning" by Clark Barrett, director of the Stanford Center for Automated Reasoning and co-director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. The event occurred today on the Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars. The recording is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAS...

Our work, purpose, mission are now more clearly expressed as we updated our website. www.horizonomega.org

Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, August 2025 edition: Towards Safe and Hallucination-Free Coding AIs, by GasStationManager (Independent Researcher) On August 7, 13:00 EDT. To join: lu.ma/6zpndj0w

New community hub listing AI safety efforts and meetups in Montréal ! Browse the directory & get involved. 👉 aisafetymontreal.org

You are invited to the July 2025 edition of the Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars. It will be on July 10, 13:00 EDT. Engineering Rational Cooperative AI via Inverse Planning and Probabilistic Programming – Tan Zhi Xuan lu.ma/yldjxmej

Limits to Control Workshop June 11-13, Louisville, KY The workshop aims to explore theoretical and practical limits of controlling increasingly autonomous AI. The 3 days of sessions are to identify controllability boundaries, key research directions, ... horizonomega.substack.com/p/limits-to-...

Announcing the Virtual AI Safety Unconference 2024 May 23rd to May 26th 2024. Online, participate from anywhere. A research event aiming to facilitate collaboration and progress towards problems of AI risk, featuring participant-driven activities, discussions, and talks. vaisu.ai – VAISU team

AI Safety Events Tracker, March 2024 edition. Newsletter listing upcoming events and open calls related to AI safety. aisafetyeventstracker.substack.com/p/ai-safety-...