IVADO

Consortium or network · Montréal, QC, Canada

Ethics & societal impact

Québec's largest interdisciplinary AI research consortium, led by Université de Montréal with Polytechnique Montréal, HEC Montréal, Université Laval and McGill. Its framing phrase is "robust, reasoning and responsible AI" (the R3AI strategy), with research areas in ethics and responsibility and in explainability. Neither its home page nor its About page frames any stream as alignment, evaluations, control or catastrophic risk.

Website: https://ivado.ca
People: Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin (CEO, four-year mandate from 2026-09-01; succeeds Luc Vinet), Aaron Courville (Scientific Director), Christopher Pal (Interim Co-Scientific Director, Scientific and International Activities), Yoshua Bengio (Special Advisor and Founding Scientific Director)
Founded: 2016
Source: https://ivado.ca/en/about-us/
Confidence: AI verified Checked against the organization's own website on 2026-08-31.

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