A Canadian nonprofit working on the human side of AI: helping nonprofits adopt AI in service of their missions, developing the next generation of AI builders, and supporting human feedback research.
Canada’s first national program for nonprofit AI adoption, backed by $1.3M federal co-investment through DIGITAL supercluster, delivered in partnership with Creative Destruction Lab and The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Closing the apprenticeship gap in AI education, we have 300 students building open source AI projects with experienced practitioners as mentors, building AI in Production skills with human-centered implementation defaults. Partnership with University of Toronto and Northeastern University.
Demos are coming in March 2026.
Running Canada’s largest AI/ML builders community with 5,700+ members. Monthly demo nights featuring 300+ production AI projects, hackathons, and technical workshops. Part of 200+ city global network, with support from Shopify, Google, Intel AI, Mozilla, Auth0, Accenture, Cohere, and more.
Join communityLed by Prolific, Hugging Face, Human Feedback Foundation, and research partners, HUMAINE evaluates AI models through real conversations with diverse populations.
For HUMAINE, 43,339 participants across 22 demographic groups rated 38 frontier models on metrics that matter to real human users, such as trustworthiness, personality, and understanding, — creating an open-source representative leaderboard with human preferences that vary across age, ethnicity, and political groups.
Led by the Human Feedback Foundation, this AI adoption playbook has been co-developed in collaboration with multi-disciplinary panel of experts, representing legal, nonprofit, ethics, policy, and governance perspectives to guide responsible AI adoption across the social impact sector.
We run AI Tinkerers Toronto — 5,700+ AI/ML builders and entrepreneurs, part of a meetup network across 200+ cities.
Monthly demos, the occasional hackathon, and community dinners. Meet fellow AI/ML builders and share what you’re working on. Supported by Shopify, Google, Mozilla, Cohere, Cerebras, DRIVE Capital, Accenture, Relay Financial, Tangerine and many others.
Paper Club is a virtual event series brought to you by the Human Feedback Foundation in collaboration with AI Tinkerers, featuring authors of cutting-edge AI and machine learning papers. These online meetups allow attendees to hear about groundbreaking research directly from the authors, participate in live Q&A sessions, and engage in discussions.
Open to all, Paper Club offers a regular opportunity to learn and interact with leaders in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence.
To stay up to date on the upcoming sessions, join us here.
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