Orpheus Lummis

Montréal, Canada

Bio

Updated 05/18/26

Orpheus Lummis is a software developer and community organizer based in Montréal, Canada, focused on advancing AI safety through convenings, coordination, and software. He is the founder of HΩ (Horizon Omega), a Canadian non-profit that runs the AI Safety Unconference series, the Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars, and a weekly AI Safety Events and Training newsletter. He has organized multiple editions of the AI Safety Unconference, including events co-located with NeurIPS and a fully virtual edition in 2024, and organized the Limits to Control Workshop in 2025. He has received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund for upskilling in AI techniques, deep reinforcement learning, and AI safety, and engaged with David Krueger's AI safety reading group at Mila. He is a software engineer generalist with specialties in distributed systems and machine learning, and was a core contributor to DefraDB, a decentralized user-centric database.