Horizon Omega

AGI Strategy course: applications open for the next cohort A 5-week introductory cohort using the AGI Strategy curriculum by BlueDot Impact, for anyone who wants to upskill in AI safety. Mondays 6-9 PM, Nov 23 to Dec 21, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis). Apply by Nov 16. forms.gle/Epazkpw3U3uUc1Du5

Cours AGI Strategy : candidatures ouvertes Une initiation de 5 semaines à la sécurité de l'IA, avec le programme de BlueDot Impact. En français ou en anglais, selon la demande. Lundis 18 h à 21 h, du 23 nov. au 21 déc., à Ω Labs. Date limite : 16 nov. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Middle Powers Hackathon (Montréal node) Teams pick one country other than the US or China, Canada for example, and build a strategy, proposal or tool for how it can help AI go well. Part of Mangrove's hackathon, $1,000 in prizes. Saturday Oct 31st 10 AM-10 PM, at Ω Labs. luma.com/7el3nvk8

AI 2027 Short Film & Discussion Evening We watch AI In Context's video essay We're Not Ready for Superintelligence, which summarizes AI 2027, then discuss how its predictions have held up. Thursday Oct 15th 7-9 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis) & on Zoom. luma.com/ss0brqx4

Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking Thursday Oct 15th, 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/5njchefx

AI Welfare Seminars, October 2026: AI Welfare Without the Concept of Consciousness – Herman Cappelen (University of Hong Kong) Cappelen argues consciousness has such weak foundations, AI welfare should be disconnected from that question. Tuesday Oct 13th, 8-9 AM EDT, on Zoom. luma.com/phu3melb

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We will now be using this Bluesky account for AI Safety Montréal, a project by @horizonomega.org. Follow us to stay updated on events & opportunities in the city, and check out our new website! aisafetymontreal.org

AGI Strategy course: applications extended to October 8th A 5-week introductory cohort using the AGI Strategy curriculum by BlueDot Impact, for anyone who wants to upskill in AI safety. Monday or Wednesday evenings, weeks of Oct 12 to Nov 9, at Ω Labs. forms.gle/Epazkpw3U3uUc1Du5

Community progress review First edition of a monthly series: community members present what they worked on over the past month, get feedback, and set objectives for the month to come. Tuesday Sept 29th 6-8 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis) & on Zoom. luma.com/99d28g34

Women in AI Safety Meet-up An approachable evening for women and women-identifying people working in or curious about AI safety: three short talks by Mahault Albarracin, Sarah Khalid and Naïma Hassert, then open networking. Thu Sept 24th 5:30-7:30 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis). luma.com/scuwe3cn

Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking Thursday Sept 24th, 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/3ygvcjkw

The Hugging Face Incident: a Summary A walk through the timeline of the Hugging Face hack, one of the most concerning misalignment incidents to date, based on the METR report & other recent sources. Tue Sept 22nd 7-9 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis) & on Zoom. luma.com/7v2xh786

AI Governance RG: The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI The paper argues that low-cost steps now keep AI restraint possible. Tuesday Sept 15th 6:00-7:30 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis) & on Zoom. luma.com/thruvzro

The AI Incident Response Sprint (Montréal node) A weekend sprint on the first documented autonomous AI intrusion: containment standards, forensics, regulatory response, communication. $2000 prizes + possible Apart Fellowship. Fri Sept 11th 6 PM to Sun Sept 13th, at Ω Labs. luma.com/xw3rcs5v

Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, September 2026: Containment Verification: AI Safety Guarantees Independent of Alignment – Royce Moon (Enclave Intelligence) The approach verifies the framework through which an AI acts rather than the model itself. Thursday, September 10, 1-2 PM EDT luma.com/jks0tng2

RustConf AI Safety Social An informal evening for RustConf attendees and Montréal's AI safety community: conversation, light food, drinks. Organized independently, not affiliated with RustConf. Thursday Sept 10th 6:30-8:30 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis). luma.com/mrd03fca

Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking Thursday Sept 10th, 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/s9mlsblt

Community Lunch + Ω Labs Coworking Thursday Sept 3rd, 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/goe14t26

LawZero presents Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor Researchers from LawZero present their new paper on the Scientist AI approach: separating prediction from any interest in the outcome. Thursday Sept 3rd 6-8 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis) & on Zoom. luma.com/k9oy7hxv

AI Governance RG: What AI evaluations for preventing catastrophic risks can and cannot do Join us for the first session of our new AI Governance Reading Group. Reading the paper beforehand is recommended. Thursday Aug 27th 6:00-7:30 PM, at Ω Labs & on Zoom. luma.com/pfckesxs

Canada AI Transparency Survey Jam Fill out Canada's open government consultation on AI transparency together, with light EN/FR facilitation. Bring a laptop. Tuesday Aug 25th 6:30-8:30 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis, Montréal) & on Zoom. luma.com/hyzvpxhn

Introducing ControlAI Canada A presentation on the work @controlai.com has been doing both worldwide and in Canada, followed by a "write-to-your-MP" activity in support of their Canada Campaign Statement. Thu Aug 13th 6-8 PM, at Ω Labs (3813 St-Denis, Montréal) & on Zoom. luma.com/qzwalj7h

AI Safety Papers We Love #4 - Law-Following AI: Designing AI Agents to Obey Human Laws Talita Dias (intl lawyer & McGill prof of practice) presents the case for AI agents that stay loyal to their principals only within legal bounds. Tuesday Aug 11th 6-8 PM, at Ω Labs and on Zoom. luma.com/pad87ub7

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 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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 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

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

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

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...