CIPHER AI | Investment | Visit Website
CIPHER helps organizations identify, characterize, and assess coordinated disinformation and influence activity across fast moving digital environments. Built for analysts, not as a replacement for them, it transforms high volume public information into structured, evidence grounded assessments that support timely and defensible decisions.
AI Safety Foundation / AI Safety Week | Charitable | Visit Website
The AI Safety Foundation increases awareness and scientific understanding of the catastrophic risks of AI, by advancing education and research, in order to ensure a safer future for humanity. AISF is hosting the inaugural AI Safety Week in Toronto Nov 9-13, 2026 with the people working on AI safety across disciplines. Public talks, working sessions and opportunities to connect and in parallel with the Hinton Lectures.
WITNESS | Charitable | Visit Website
WITNESS learns from and with frontline human rights defenders and journalists how to prepare for AI’s impact on trust, democracy, and human rights. Through training and rapid response programs, we address real-world AI harms.
We leverage expertise, research, and cross-regional networks to shape audiovisual technologies, infrastructure, and the policies and laws that govern them. Whether confronting AI’s weaponization against vulnerable communities, its impact on elections, or its potential for positive change, we ensure these technologies strengthen – rather than undermine – human rights and our information ecosystem.
University of Toronto (Schwartz Reisman Institute) | Grant | Beth Coleman
Seed grant to support EU Horizon grant application for “Artistic intelligence”: harnessing the power of the arts to address complex challenges. Intended outcomes:
• Demonstrated efficacy of transdisciplinary art-science-technology frameworks in addressing complex societal challenges, establishing new pathways for inclusive innovation.
• Institutionalized and scaled international networks connecting cultural repositories, academic labs, and creative practitioners, thereby broadening structural opportunities for artistic interventions in tech and science ecosystems.
• Successful deployment and validation of three low-Technology Readiness Level (TRL) pilot demonstrators, materializing artists' critical engagement with novel generative AI architectures toward functional, public-facing prototypes.
The Human Line Project AI | Charitable | Visit Website
The Human Line Project is the world's first non-profit dedicated to documenting and addressing AI-induced psychological harm. The Human Line Project and its peer-to-peer support community aim to raise awareness of mental health issues surrounding AI and help people understand these experiences.