Advancing AI safety through collaboration, research, and education https://www.horizonomega.org/https://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mrnj5koh2k23Community 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 http://luma.com/urpl7el827 Jul 2026 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnj5koh2k23https://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mqwhmanpys2nGSAI 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 https://luma.com/enczy3q218 Jul 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwhmanpys2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mqwgzasbpk2bMontréal 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 https://luma.com/rxoi055318 Jul 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwgzasbpk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mq4yu5bbfk26Secret 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 https://luma.com/h38iedje08 Jul 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4yu5bbfk26https://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mpipjgcons22We 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: https://horizonomega.substack.com/p/ai-control-hackathon-2026-retrospective30 Jun 2026 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpipjgcons22https://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mphjbcwnfk2aDigital 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 https://luma.com/3deme2sa29 Jun 2026 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphjbcwnfk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mnrpiqhbzs2eDiscussion 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 https://luma.com/bpt4xvd108 Jun 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrpiqhbzs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mnkkvi6odk2gAI 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 https://luma.com/ab2xlas305 Jun 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkkvi6odk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mnhfrbkxus2mAI 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 https://luma.com/yssznx7y04 Jun 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhfrbkxus2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mn32c2occs25Upcoming AI Welfare Seminar: Measuring Machine Consciousness by Cameron Berg, Founder and Director of Reciprocal Research Tuesday June 16, 1PM Eastern luma.com/kcdncrut https://luma.com/kcdncrut30 May 2026 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn32c2occs25https://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mlve7hir4k2kNext 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 https://luma.com/sc15vlr815 May 2026 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlve7hir4k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mlecxzcpwc2bWe 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. https://horizonomega.substack.com/p/labs-is-open-in-montreal08 May 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlecxzcpwc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mlaeslk6as2jThe 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 https://luma.com/4q2fnc3907 May 2026 04:27 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaeslk6as2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mkukt3usds2xGuaranteed 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 https://luma.com/euzt6ey702 May 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkukt3usds2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mkbnyrf43k2oAI 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 https://luma.com/dnz5hly324 Apr 2026 23:19 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbnyrf43k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mhqoros7qs2vGuaranteed 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 https://luma.com/920d2h7p23 Mar 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqoros7qs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mfjq5uehxs2rGuaranteed 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 https://luma.com/nk8ce7so23 Feb 2026 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjq5uehxs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mfhxjplyu222Montréal 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 https://luma.com/7kugvplz22 Feb 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfhxjplyu222https://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mf6osujfsk2dMontréal 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 https://luma.com/hcrp5nmu19 Feb 2026 03:49 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf6osujfsk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mdyda2dsvk2iMontréal 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 https://luma.com/gifbf18i03 Feb 2026 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdyda2dsvk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mdyczoamu22iFor 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 https://luma.com/8nztwanh03 Feb 2026 21:37 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdyczoamu22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mdv3v3vggc2bLancement 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/ https://newsletter.aisafetymontreal.org/fevrier-2026/02 Feb 2026 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdv3v3vggc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mdaup2zars2aMontréal 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 https://luma.com/azd9irwp25 Jan 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdaup2zars2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3md4e4zgj6k2tThe 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 https://luma.com/yyrdzld423 Jan 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3md4e4zgj6k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mcs2taetts2rMontréal 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 https://luma.com/5vtq60el19 Jan 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcs2taetts2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3mblysyxyf22pAI 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 https://luma.com/mf69p5pi04 Jan 2026 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mblysyxyf22phttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3maoevts7kk2aHΩ'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! https://horizonomega.substack.com/p/h-2025-review23 Dec 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3maoevts7kk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3m73zriashc2wMontréal 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 https://luma.com/paky3mih03 Dec 2025 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73zriashc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/horizonomega.org/post/3m6xjouho7s2qMontréal 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 https://luma.com/mmuqltzq01 Dec 2025 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:iofyvdnhthbohl7vl6kpwngr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6xjouho7s2q