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Horizon Omega is a Canadian nonprofit working on AI safety. We run AI Safety Montréal, the city’s AI safety, ethics and governance community, alongside seminar series that are online and open to anyone anywhere, the Ω Labs coworking space, and the Canadian AI Incident Monitor. Donations fund all of it (see all projects).
One thing to know before you give: HΩ is a not‑for‑profit corporation but not a registered charity in Canada. We cannot issue tax receipts, and donations are not tax‑deductible.
Give monthly
Monthly is the kind of support that helps most, because it makes predictable what otherwise is not. A grant arrives, then it ends, and the months in between are the hard ones.
Or give once
Up to CA$3,000 you can pay by bank debit instead of card. It takes a little longer for you and it saves us the fee: on a CA$2,000 gift, a card costs us $58 and bank debit about $8.
Above CA$3,000 bank debit is not possible. An Interac e-transfer to team@horizonomega.org is the cheapest route for both of us at that size.
Other ways to give
Interac e‑Transfer
Send a transfer to team@horizonomega.org
It costs us almost nothing, which makes it the best route for a large gift.
Sponsorship and in‑kind
Venue, captioning, editing, design, or an employer match. Contact us and we will find the shape that works.
Where your money goes
Donations are unrestricted: not tied to one project or one deadline. Grants usually are. So donations cover what grants miss, like the months between one grant ending and the next starting, and small costs such as food at a meetup that project budgets leave out.
AI Safety Montréal A 1,600-member community, the Mila AI safety reading group (co-run), bilingual talks and workshops, and Ω Labs coworking. aisafetymontreal.org
Seminars and unconferences The Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, the AI Welfare Seminars, and the AI Safety Unconference.
Canadian AI Incident Monitor A bilingual public database of AI failures and hazards in Canada. In pilot at caim.horizonomega.org
Operations Venue, captioning, recording, editing, and the infrastructure that keeps everything running.
Friends of Ω
Any donation makes you a Friend of Ω, once or monthly, any amount. We list Friends on our acknowledgements page if you’d like: send the name and any link you want with your transfer, or reply to your Stripe confirmation. Anonymous is also fine.
About HΩ
HΩ is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation (1584536-0) incorporated in Québec. Our funders and Friends of Ω are listed on the acknowledgements page, and our privacy policy covers how donor information is handled.