Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI)

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #202: Delegated by Default On AI agents that act for us, a national AI council that advises for us, and who gets a say in either. Plus: two weeks to SAIER Volume 8. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Honored that our contribution opens the first look at SAIER Vol. 8 — the lines on Brazil's "AI suggests, but the human decides" guide and oversight as "compliance theatre" come from "The Vacuum Inside the Filler", written with Luciana Soares Percegona. Out November 10.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #201: The Year the Terms Became Visible A first look at SAIER Volume 8 and the terms 2026 set for oversight, sovereignty, and surveillance. Plus how US AI security came to depend on private firms. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #200: Who Is This For? On MAIEI’s founding question, the fragility that can accompany AI adoption, and the people institutions need to govern it. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #199: The Capacity to Govern On open weights for everyone else, credit for a disputed mathematics proof, and control over autonomous weapons. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #198: Weights and Measures On open-weight models, the responsibilities that move with them, and who owns the layers beneath the model. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #197: Terms Set Upstream Enterprises are discovering their AI provider is also a competitor. Chinese users discovered their companions were never theirs. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #196: No One Was Required to Count Anthropic destroyed books the law had no reason to tally. OpenAI ran an evaluation no one was required to contain. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Last call: EOIs for the State of AI Ethics Report Volume 8 close tomorrow, July 31. We want short, 2026-anchored practitioner pieces on Power, Fracture, Resistance Submit: forms.gle/c4zqcSXZW5ff... Outline: montrealethics.ai/saier-vol-8-...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #195: When the Rules Arrive Late AI's costs are landing in real places, and the people absorbing them are writing the rules after the fact, in council chambers and courtrooms. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #194: Who Builds, Who Depends, Who Decides Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #193: ACM FAccT Comes to Montreal FAccT lands in Montreal and the Vatican enters the AI debate. Both circle the same question: who holds power over AI, and who can refuse it? brief.montrealethics.ai/publish/post...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #192: Canada Has a National AI Strategy. The Hard Questions Come Next. On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

In the latest AI Policy Corner @grailcenter.bsky.social student Selen Kosterit together with @mtlaiethics.bsky.social to examine Australia’s shift from proposed mandatory AI guardrails to a National AI Plan centered on innovation, adoption & global competitiveness montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain What we give up, who gets to refuse, and the road to SAIER Volume 8 (2026). open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #189: The Futures We Make Room For On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Out tomorrow at 10am ET, Mar 31: 📌 The AI Ethics Brief #187: The Myth of Inevitability On manufactured inevitability and the surveillance infrastructure being built in plain sight. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

Global Dialogue on AI Governance consultation, here we go! Hoping to get three minutes to talk about the potential of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN)*, @weandai.bsky.social and @mtlaiethics.bsky.social *We have a website now! rain.ngo

New #TechFutures article in this week’s @mtlaiethics.bsky.social #AIEthicsBrief! Part one of a two-part series looking at how #BigTech is learning from the #FossilFuels playbook. montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...

Isadora Argenta @grailcenter.bsky.social examines Illinois’ Act 103-0804 in the latest AI Policy Corner @mtlaiethics.bsky.social . The law restricts discriminatory uses of AI in employment & requires notice when AI influences hiring decisions. brief.montrealethics.ai/i/191138405/... #AIpolicy

Efua Asamani-Baah article, @grailcenter.bsky.social in AI Policy Corner examines Ghana’s national strategy for AI integration, assessing governance priorities, development goals & implementation challenges @mtlaiethics.bsky.social 🔗 montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co... #AI #AIpolicy #AIGovernance

It’s out! For this week’s #AIEthicsBrief, I contributed an article on the difficulties posed to open source maintainers by low-quality, AI-generated contributions montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...

There might be something of value here: zenodo.org/records/1278.... I’m writing about how AI slop is making open source resources harder to maintain for Tuesday’s #AIEthicsBrief by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social, which is a similar problem. bsky.app/profile/herm...

Working on something important for Tuesday's #AIEthicsBrief by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #186: Sovereign by Design. Accountable by Whose Standard? Canada’s sovereignty moment, Anthropic’s values test, and the accountability frameworks we still need to build. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/8fd5fe71-c...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention On critical ignoring, Claude’s constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Very pleased to share the first of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network’s (RAIN) first “Tech Futures” column for @mtlaiethics.bsky.social: montrealethics.ai/tech-futures... I will use this space to argue for more rigorous, science-based AI narratives.

Is a shared AI policy framework coming? The latest Executive Order aims for national cohesion through 5 key strategies. Check out our collaboration @mtlaiethics.bsky.social with @grailcenter.bsky.social for a full analysis. montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co... #AI #AIPolicy #TechEthics #Governance

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture Why 2026 marks the end of “business as usual” for AI ethics open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #181: We're Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics Happy New Year! We kick off our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues We wish you Happy Holidays before diving into our State of AI Ethics Report Part IV: Emerging Technologies, while Sun-Gyoo Kang explores AI agents and their effect on e-commerce open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

The latest @mtlaiethics.bsky.social AI Ethics Brief examines how AI is reshaping labour across sectors from healthcare to the arts & how workers are organizing for rights, voice & accountability in response. 🔗 brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth... #AI #AIethics #Labour #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill aiethics.substack.com/p/the-ai-eth...

@mtlaiethics.bsky.social How AI regulation can both harm & foster social justice, newest issue out. Digging into why regulation isn’t an unambiguous win: while helping curb misuse, it also risks reinforcing existing inequalities. 🔗 brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth... #AI #AIGovernance #AIpolicy

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #176: AI's Material Reality Data centres, digital art, and the material costs of AI. Plus SAIER Volume 7 returns. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #175: When Consultation Becomes Theatre Canada's AI strategy excludes those most affected, while copyright battles and tragic deaths expose the accountability crisis in AI deployment. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #174: The Unfinished Work of AI Ethics Revisiting Abhishek Gupta's legacy on sustainability, creative labor, and global security one year after his passing. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #173: Power, Policy, and Practice Military partnerships, psychological dependencies, and legislative responses to AI harms. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Let's meet at ALL IN 2025 on September 24–25 in Montréal! We're looking forward to spotlighting stories & case studies from innovators, builders & regulators working on real-world AI breakthroughs. Secure your spot now: allinevent.ai #AI #Montreal #AIEvent #AIEconomy #Innovation

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #172: The State of AI Ethics in 2025: What's Actually Working SAIER Volume 7 Returns in November 2025 with Practical Solutions from Communities Leading the Way brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #171: The Contradictions Defining AI's Future OpenAI's strategic reversals, why some philosophers say "ChatGPT is bullshit," and the battle between protection and privacy. montrealethics.ai/the-ai-ethic...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #170: How the US and China Are Reshaping AI Geopolitics When deregulation meets multilateralism, privacy fails, and 'AI for Good' censors dissent. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Selen Dogan Kosterit, a PhD student with the GRAIL Center, presents the latest AI Policy Corner with @mtlaiethics.bsky.social. She analyzes Japan’s AI Promotion Act, an innovation-focused, light-touch law aimed at making Japan the world’s most AI-friendly nation. montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co...

given who is charge of AI right now, YIKES! I love the current ai born of curiousity and research, the next gen will be born of predatory profit and control//me begging for distributed local ai/homegrown! #resistance #artificialintelligence