{ "about": "AI Citizen Action directory data. Channel records are published here only when a reviewed route explicitly accepts contact and is currently open or limited. Route verified still records technical retrieval separately.", "section": "orgs", "count": 82, "excluded_count": 0, "generated": "2026-09-24T15:07:58.861Z", "records": [ { "id": "ca-lawzero", "type": "civil-society", "geo": { "country": "ca", "label": "Canada (Montreal)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "general-enquiries", "type": "email", "value": "info@lawzero.org", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "2a7bd61768a1" }, { "id": "media", "type": "email", "value": "media@lawzero.org", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "ec5ebf064c3e" }, { "id": "careers", "type": "form", "value": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lawzero", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "bc16b26987be" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://lawzero.org/en", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "d95d5f414a42" } ], "region": "Canada", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "research" ], "entity_key": "entity-e3db2402-b83e-4dbb-a65b-87e23204a21b", "roles": [ "civil-society" ] }, "strings": { "name": "LawZero", "remit": "Non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio in June 2025 to develop safe-by-design AI. Core technical bet is 'Scientist AI' — a non-agentic, uncertainty-quantifying system designed to understand and predict rather than to act, usable as a guardrail that monitors and vetoes unsafe actions by agentic systems.", "threat_model": "Loss of control from agentic AI with goals and self-preservation drives. Bengio's explicit thesis is that agency itself is the hazard and that non-agentic systems are the safe substrate.", "reality_check": "New and building. Two real published inboxes, which is more than most technical labs offer. Be aware that Bengio is spread across three major roles — reaching LawZero is not the same as reaching him, and volume to him is extremely high.", "gov_channel": "Very strong by proxy — Bengio chairs both the International AI Safety Report and co-chairs the UN Scientific Panel. LawZero itself has no formal advisory seat, but its founder is the single most connected individual in global AI safety governance.", "routes": { "general-enquiries": { "label": "General enquiries", "scope": "Anyone" }, "media": { "label": "Media", "scope": "Press" }, "careers": { "label": "Careers", "scope": "Researchers and engineers" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lawzero", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "32334e5cb2", "research_order": 106, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "ca-mila-quebec-ai-institute", "type": "academic", "geo": { "country": "ca", "label": "Canada (Montreal)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "general-information", "type": "email", "value": "info@mila.quebec", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "769fefcf317d" }, { "id": "media-requests", "type": "email", "value": "medias@mila.quebec", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "d088a0d700f8" }, { "id": "continuing-education", "type": "email", "value": "education@mila.quebec", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "67152078cd79" }, { "id": "mila-ventures", "type": "email", "value": "ventures@mila.quebec", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "f7dbd3a912af" }, { "id": "careers", "type": "form", "value": "https://apply.workable.com/mila-2/?lng=en", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "e97aa011775a" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://mila.quebec/en", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "f92cfb23cd11" } ], "region": "Canada", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "research" ], "entity_key": "entity-be4c9f1c-c72a-42b9-8d1e-25a79acbbfd9", "roles": [ "academic" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Mila — Quebec AI Institute", "remit": "Research institute founded by Yoshua Bengio in 1993, uniting researchers from Université de Montréal, McGill, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal — 1,400+ researchers and 140+ affiliated professors. AI safety and governance work runs through an AI Governance, Policy and Inclusion division, the AI Policy Compass programme for policymakers, TRAIL responsible-AI training, and the AI4Good Lab, plus Indigenous-AI work.", "threat_model": "Broad. Bengio's presence anchors serious loss-of-control work, while the institutional programmes emphasise responsible AI, inclusion and policy capacity. Do not assume Mila as an institution shares Bengio's x-risk position — most of it does not.", "reality_check": "Several real published inboxes, which is good. But it is a large general ML institute, not a safety organisation — most of its 1,400 researchers do capabilities work. Route safety concerns to LawZero or to Bengio's academic page rather than to Mila's general inbox.", "gov_channel": "Strong in Canada — Mila researchers advise the Canadian government and Bengio chairs both the International AI Safety Report and co-chairs the UN Scientific Panel.", "routes": { "general-information": { "label": "General information", "scope": "Anyone", "note": "Address: 6666 St-Urbain #200, Montreal, Quebec H2S 3H1." }, "media-requests": { "label": "Media requests", "scope": "Press" }, "continuing-education": { "label": "Continuing education (TRAIL, AI Policy Compass)", "scope": "Professionals and policymakers" }, "mila-ventures": { "label": "Mila Ventures", "scope": "Startups" }, "careers": { "label": "Careers", "scope": "Applicants" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://apply.workable.com/mila-2/?lng=en", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "2f70b8425a", "research_order": 139, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "ca-vector-institute", "type": "academic", "geo": { "country": "ca", "label": "Canada (Toronto)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "general-information", "type": "email", "value": "info@vectorinstitute.ai", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "62b82dc67ff3" }, { "id": "media", "type": "email", "value": "media@vectorinstitute.ai", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "cdf29ab7a77b" }, { "id": "contact-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://vectorinstitute.ai/about/contact/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "d166a50dda7b" }, { "id": "careers", "type": "form", "value": "https://vectorinstitute.ai/about/careers/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "891006ae7f0c" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://vectorinstitute.ai/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "36016f758692" } ], "region": "Canada", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "research" ], "entity_key": "entity-a0f67e3c-2721-402e-b2ea-fefe98b06c4c", "roles": [ "academic" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Vector Institute", "remit": "Canada's Toronto-based AI institute — 1,488+ affiliated researchers and faculty, 30+ industry partnerships, 450+ papers. Focus is research excellence and accelerating AI adoption across Canadian industry and health systems, with a stated 'responsible AI leadership' strand and work on trustworthy AI frameworks and evaluation.", "threat_model": "Trustworthy-AI and adoption framing: reliability, privacy, fairness and deployment safety in regulated sectors, especially health. Not a catastrophic-risk institute.", "reality_check": "Published inbox, but an adoption-and-industry institute at heart. Its AI safety footprint is much smaller than its size suggests. Low yield for a safety concern.", "gov_channel": "Real in Canada — Vector is a federally and provincially funded pillar of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy and advises on Canadian AI policy.", "routes": { "general-information": { "label": "General information", "scope": "Anyone" }, "media": { "label": "Media", "scope": "Press" }, "contact-page": { "label": "Contact page", "scope": "General" }, "careers": { "label": "Careers", "scope": "Applicants" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://vectorinstitute.ai/about/contact/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://vectorinstitute.ai/about/careers/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "8e88ad23c2", "research_order": 140, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-institute-ai-international-governance", "type": "academic", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "China (Beijing)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "general-enquiries", "type": "email", "value": "i-aiig@tsinghua.edu.cn", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "f8bf4a18df80" }, { "id": "institute-site", "type": "form", "value": "http://aiig.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "8f081dcdc66e" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "http://aiig.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "e597e93d6232" } ], "region": "China", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "law", "research" ], "entity_key": "entity-a958d944-1447-49ac-815e-f9d4f75b30d0", "roles": [ "academic" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG), Tsinghua University", "remit": "Tsinghua's AI governance research institute. Conducts research on AI governance frameworks and international cooperation, hosts the International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum, runs talent programmes (including the AI for SDGs Global Youth competition), publishes annual reports and academic work, and coordinates with UN agencies and foreign governments. Tsinghua also hosts the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), which does AI-and-security track-II work, and co-launched a UNU Hub on ethical and responsible AI.", "threat_model": "International governance and cooperation framing; increasingly engages frontier risk and AI safety in dialogue with Western counterparts. Chinese AI safety discourse has moved noticeably toward frontier-risk framing, with Chinese scientists (including Andrew Yao and Zhang Ya-Qin) signing international statements.", "reality_check": "A published inbox, but approaching a Chinese state-adjacent academic institute cold from abroad rarely works. The realistic route is via Concordia AI, which has existing relationships across Chinese AI safety institutions, or via the international forums Tsinghua co-hosts.", "gov_channel": "Strong within China — Tsinghua institutes advise Chinese ministries and participate in official international dialogues.", "routes": { "general-enquiries": { "label": "General enquiries", "scope": "Anyone", "note": "Phone: +86 10 62794781. Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing." }, "institute-site": { "label": "Institute site (English)", "scope": "Public" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "http://aiig.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "28952e7167", "research_order": 141, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-pku-alignment-group-center-ai-safety", "type": "academic", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "China (Beijing)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "pku-alignment-group-general", "type": "email", "value": "pku.alignment@gmail.com", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "94e61dce1fab" }, { "id": "github-open-source-alignment", "type": "submission", "value": "https://github.com/PKU-Alignment", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "26808f6a0e6d" }, { "id": "recruitment-form", "type": "form", "value": "https://hwcdc27ergv.feishu.cn/share/base/form/shrcnujPFnMnEL4tFrtPLXV9qad", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "3dfe8853e075" }, { "id": "pku-center-ai-safety", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.ai.pku.edu.cn/en/Faculty/AI_Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Centers/Center_for_AI_Safety_and_Governance.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "2a859e4be9fa" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://pku-alignment.group/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "ebd274502841" } ], "region": "China", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "research" ], "entity_key": "entity-2d8c3951-e267-4d3d-a254-2bec498bb06e", "roles": [ "academic" ] }, "strings": { "name": "PKU Alignment Group / Center for AI Safety and Governance, Peking University", "remit": "PKU-Alignment is a student-organised research team at Peking University working on reinforcement learning, LLMs, world models and AI alignment. Widely known for open-sourcing alignment resources — PKU-SafeRLHF datasets, Safe-RLHF training code, BeaverTails and the Align-Anything framework — published at ACL, NeurIPS and ICLR, with collaborations including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, DeepSeek and Alibaba. PKU's Institute for AI separately hosts a Center for AI Safety and Governance.", "threat_model": "Value alignment of LLMs — safe RLHF, helpfulness/harmlessness tradeoffs, and increasingly scalable oversight. Genuinely alignment-focused, not a near-term-harms group.", "reality_check": "Notably open for a Chinese institution — a public Gmail address, open GitHub, and a public recruitment form. Its open-source alignment work is genuinely used worldwide, making GitHub the highest-bandwidth channel. Student-run, so responsiveness varies with cohort.", "gov_channel": "Indirect — PKU researchers feed into Chinese AI safety standards discussions and the China AI Safety and Development Network.", "routes": { "pku-alignment-group-general": { "label": "PKU Alignment Group general contact", "scope": "Anyone", "note": "Location: West Ziyuan Building, Peking University, Haidian, Beijing." }, "github-open-source-alignment": { "label": "GitHub — open-source alignment datasets and frameworks, open to contribution", "scope": "Anyone", "note": "The most practical route for technical engagement; these repositories are widely used internationally." }, "recruitment-form": { "label": "Recruitment form", "scope": "Prospective members" }, "pku-center-ai-safety": { "label": "PKU Center for AI Safety and Governance", "scope": "Reference" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://github.com/PKU-Alignment", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://hwcdc27ergv.feishu.cn/share/base/form/shrcnujPFnMnEL4tFrtPLXV9qad", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.ai.pku.edu.cn/en/Faculty/AI_Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Centers/Center_for_AI_Safety_and_Governance.htm", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "659fafa62d", "research_order": 142, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "eu-beuc", "type": "organisation", "geo": { "country": "eu", "label": "European Union / Europe — 44 member organisations, 31 countries." }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "action", "type": "action", "value": "https://www.beuc.eu/general/artificial-intelligence", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "4efb0627a24e" } ], "perspective": "civil-liberties", "volunteers": "no", "tags": [ "audit", "harm", "join" ], "entity_key": "entity-69f655d6-3505-4254-8a71-e87ae0e6002e", "roles": [ "organisation" ] }, "strings": { "name": "BEUC (European Consumer Organisation)", "the_ask": "The EU AI Act must give consumers real, enforceable rights — accountability, transparency and control over AI — and must not be hollowed out by the digital omnibus deregulation.", "what_they_do": "Umbrella body for 44 independent national consumer organisations in 31 countries; lobbies EU institutions, files joint letters (e.g. July 2026 on keeping medical devices in the AI Act's scope) and publicly warned in May 2026 that the adopted AI omnibus 'risks creating dangerous regulatory loopholes and weakening consumer protection'.", "newcomer_action": "Join or contact your own national consumer organisation (the BEUC member in your country) — that is the only individual route; BEUC itself works with institutions, not individuals.", "tips": "no — complaints go to national member organisations", "geography": "European Union / Europe — 44 member organisations, 31 countries.", "scale": "Mid-sized Brussels secretariat representing very large national members.", "spending": "Member-funded and EU-grant funded; registered on the EU transparency register.", "caution": "BEUC does not take individual cases. Its influence is real but institutional; your leverage is through your national member organisation's campaigns.", "routes": { "action": { "label": "Action page" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.beuc.eu/general/artificial-intelligence", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "d1bc211a63", "research_order": 37, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#orgs" } }, { "id": "gb-ada-lovelace-institute", "type": "civil-society", "geo": { "country": "gb", "label": "United Kingdom (London)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "contact-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/contact/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "ed82068a1604" }, { "id": "public-deliberation-participation-programmes", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "58381f5a9dfc" }, { "id": "newsletter", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/newsletter-subscribe", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "4336d687478b" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "975c581d88fd" } ], "region": "United Kingdom", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "research", "systemic" ], "entity_key": "entity-325863e0-4fb4-47bd-a42e-9e5e84b046dc", "roles": [ "civil-society" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Ada Lovelace Institute", "remit": "Independent research institute (funded by the Nuffield Foundation) working on AI governance, policy and regulation; AI evaluation methods; public-sector AI; public participation and deliberation about AI; and law and policy. Notable for running genuine public deliberation exercises and for rigorous work on the limits of AI evaluation and audit.", "threat_model": "Near-term and structural: distributional justice, public legitimacy, regulatory capacity, and accountability for deployed systems. Explicitly NOT an existential-risk organisation — it has published critiques of the frontier-risk framing. Do not mislabel it as an alignment body.", "reality_check": "Reputable and moderately responsive, with a genuine methodological commitment to public voice. Email addresses are deliberately obscured on the site, so use the form. UNVERIFIED: exact email addresses could not be confirmed — do not guess them.", "gov_channel": "Strong in the UK — regularly cited in parliamentary committee work and consulted on UK AI regulation; also active in EU debates.", "routes": { "contact-page": { "label": "Contact page", "scope": "General and media enquiries", "note": "The page lists a general enquiries address and a media contact (George Lloyd-King), but the addresses are obfuscated against scraping and could not be read reliably — use the page itself. Phone: +44 (0)207 631 0566. 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