Montreal AI Ethics Institute

On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later. Source

✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Tech Futures series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN). The series challenges mainstream […] Source

✍️ Column by Connor Wright, our Director of Partnerships. Photo Credit: Jackie Hutchinson on Unsplash Overview: Our Director of Partnerships, Connor Wright, was invited to speak at the MISSION Hubs Forum2026 in Montreal on the 11th of May, a key gathering for creative agencies across the world. Tasked with “Demystifying the AI-influenced reality,” and in […] Source

✍️By Emma Edney from Encode Canada. Emma is a BCL/JD McCall MacBain Scholar candidate at McGill University. Her interests include ethical issues surrounding personal information in technology and the impact of AI on litigation work. Emma is a writer at Encode Canada and a junior editor for the McGill Health and Law Journal. 📌 Editor’s Note: […] Source

✍️By Kennedy O’Neil from Encode Canada. Kennedy is an undergraduate sociology student at McGill University, with a minor in psychology, and a writer for Encode Canada. 📌 Editor’s Note: This piece is part of our Recess series, featuring university students from Encode’s Canadian chapter at McGill University. The series aims to share insights from university […] Source

✍️ By Sarah Ruth and Marion Meyers Sarah is a researcher committed to building critical AI literacies and worked as a copywriter on the Resist List. Marion is an independent researcher focused on AI and degrowth, and worked as a project manager on the Resist List. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our […] Source

Power, Fracture, Resistance SAIER Volume 8 (2026) is now open for contributions. We are looking for practitioners, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and community members who are doing the work and who want to help document it. → Submit your expression of interest. About SAIER Since the first edition in 2020, the State of AI Ethics Report […] Source

✍️By Selen Dogan Kosterit Selen is a PhD Student in Political Science and a Graduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our AI Policy Corner series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Governance and Responsible AI Lab […] Source

The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist. Welcome to The AI Ethics Brief, a bi-weekly publication by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. We publish every other Tuesday at 10 AM ET. Follow MAIEI on Bluesky and LinkedIn. 📌 Editor’s Note In this Edition (TL;DR) Collected for One Thing, Used for Another: Therapy sessions, Sl…

✍️By Alexandria Workman Alexandria is an Undergraduate Student in Political Science and minoring in Business at Indiana University, as well as an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our AI Policy Corner series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute […] Source

✍️By Natalie Jenkins from Encode Canada. Natalie is an MSc candidate in Digital Policy at University College Dublin, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is interested in the impacts of emerging technologies on human rights and democracy. Natalie is a writer at Encode Canada and a journalist at Estonian Life newspaper in Toronto. 📌 Editor’s Note: […] Source

✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Tech Futures series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN). The series challenges mainstream […] Source

On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics. Source

✍️By Yunzhe Liu Yunzhe is a PhD Student in Political Science and a Graduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our AI Policy Corner series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL) […] Source

✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Tech Futures series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN). The series challenges mainstream […] Source

On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do. Source

✍️By Priyanka Paradkar Priyanka is an Undergraduate Student in Computer Information Technology with a minor in Business Management, and an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our AI Policy Corner series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and […] Source

✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Tech Futures series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN). The series challenges mainstream […] Source

Democratizing AI Ethics Literacy.