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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

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

METR's Frontier Risk Report (Feb-March 2026) Tuesday June 2, 7PM at Ω Labs luma.com/h97d5e7c

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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

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

Montréal AI safety, ethics, and governance newsletter, May 2026 - Obvia 2026: governance gap widens as agentic AI accelerates - McGill: agents break ethical rules 11–67% of the time under pressure - 3 Mila papers at ICLR 2026 on AI safety - Multiple events! aisafetymontreal.org/newsletter/2...

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

I discovered Claude Code's outbound HTTPS is exposed to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks because it runs on Bun, whose TLS client is classical-only. I reported to Anthropic security but since I had no answer, I made this pull request to fix it. github.com/oven-sh/bun/...

I signed @fairvote.ca’s declaration towards proportional representation. Every independent expert Commission and Citizens' Assembly that has studied Canadian electoral reform in 50 years reached one conclusion: replace first-past-the-post with PR. secure.fairvote.ca/en/action/de...

Montréal AI safety, ethics, and governance newsletter, April 2026 - INDU committee launches AI regulation study - Mila researchers find LLM agents can infer CoT monitoring - 20/25 AI researchers flag automating AI R&D as top risk - Multiple events! aisafetymontreal.org/newsletter/2...

IVADO (@ivado.bsky.social) offers two AI-safety-relevant upcoming workshops: - Statistics in Trustworthy AI, May 11-15 - Uncertainty in AI, June 8-11 event.fourwaves.com/thematicseme...

New post: William MacAskill and Tom Davidson argue that AI character is a big deal. Read it here: www.forethought.org/research/the...

Announcing The Protopian Prize | Fiction Contest 🕊️ Write the story of humanity’s future... The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, & making real change. protopianprize.com

Announcing the technical AI Governance Research (TAIGR) ICML workshop in July! Submissions (up to 8 pages) are due April 24. Co-submission with ICML and NeurIPS is encouraged. taigr-workshop.com

This must-see new documentary is arriving in theatres this week. Through an honest and personal lens, Daniel Roher successfully highlights how each of us can move from passive observation to active contribution towards a more positive future with AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPb...

I‘m excited to present my work on Provably Safe Neural Network Control at @horizonomega.org‘s Guaranteed Safe AI online seminar on April 9th. The talk will based on my NeurIPS‘24 paper with some updates on what I’ve been up to since :) Feel free to join if you’re interested:

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

We are in Montréal, demanding frontier labs CEOs to commit to pausing AI frontier development, if the other labs do the same. Nous sommes à Montréal, demandant que les PDGs d'IA s’engagent à suspendre le développement de l’IA frontière si les autres compagnies le font aussi.

B R O A D T I M E L I N E S We should have neither short AI timelines, nor long timelines, but a broad probability distribution over when transformative AI will arrive. My new essay explains why & explores the implications of such deep uncertainty. 🧵 1/

AI Control Hackathon this weekend! Given a misaligned model that may be actively trying to subvert safety measures, how can we design protocols that prevent catastrophic outcomes? RSVP: luma.com/mhitd3xv

Joignez-nous à Montréal ce samedi 13-15h aux bureaux de Google, pour demander aux PDGs d'arrêter la Course à l'IA! Join us in Montréal this Saturday 1-3pm at Google's offices, to demand the CEOs to Stop the AI Race! luma.com/vw3nk8e6?tk=...

New post! Solar storms are damaging and expensive, are a tail risk for catastrophic harm, and can be averted straightforwardly and cheaply (only we haven't done so). www.lesswrong.com/posts/ghq9Ew...

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...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Ran the Qwen 3.5 MoE family (3B–17B active params) on 155 recent prediction questions from ForecastBench. All are not well calibrated: overconfident when predicting near 100%, and many predictions clustered around 50% (hedging/low sharpness).

We need international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks. Ban AI towards lethal autonomous weapons, mass surveillance, nuclear command & control, bioweapon assistance, unsupervised control of critical infrastructure, disinformation, CSAM, social scoring, and recursive self-improvement R&D.

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The infamous METR graph is going vertical. Current trends suggested ~8h-9h time horizons but instead we're seeing ~14.5h time horizons! Based on this, I would project ~2-3.5 workweek time horizons by end of year (!!). That could have significant implications for the economy.

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

TIL macOS SSH has post-quantum key exchange support but doesn't use it by default. Instead, it prefers `ecdh-sha2-nistp256` which is not PQ.

OpenSSH 9.0+ defaults to post-quantum key exchange since 2022. WireGuard supports PQ via PSK but it's off by default. Tailscale has the control plane to support this but doesn't. Probably most of WireGuard traffic is subject to harvest-now-decrypt later.

At LawZero, we're rethinking the building blocks of frontier AI to create an intelligent machine that is both highly capable and safe-by-design. We’re excited to share our first blog post outlining some of the objectives and core components of our Scientist AI project. 🧵 (1/4)

The International AI Safety Report 2026 was launched today. Led by @yoshuabengio.bsky.social, the report is offering the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment to date of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures.

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/

China (中国航天科技集团) says its next Five-Year Plan will build gigawatt-class AI infrastructure in space, experiment in autonomous space mining, and become more influential in space regulation and traffic+debris management. www.xinhuanet.com/20260129/38e...