Wyatt Tessari L'Allié
Bio
Updated 03/23/26Wyatt Tessari L'Allié is the Founder and Executive Director of AI Governance and Safety Canada (AIGS Canada), a non-partisan not-for-profit organization based in Ottawa working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial. He moved to Ottawa in October 2021 to build the Canadian AI safety and governance community, consolidating various Canadian AI safety groups into a unified national organization. His background spans mechanical engineering (École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2011), filmmaking (New York Film Academy, 2008), mining and emissions compliance work, and climate advocacy through three electoral campaigns between 2010 and 2015. After learning about AGI and x-risk in 2015, he spent four years researching 21st-century challenges and authored a book on global issue prioritization before transitioning fully to AI governance work. Since 2022, AIGS Canada has made public policy submissions to the Canadian federal government and he has testified before multiple parliamentary committees on AI governance. He received Long-Term Future Fund grants to connect, expand, and enable the AGI safety and governance community in Canada.
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