Julian Guidote Montréal · MMXXVI

It's time to build community infrastructure for AI safety.

Trilingual lawyer. Background in crisis response, policy, criminal litigation, and cognitive science. The through-line: I build and sustain communities. I've been circling around AI safety for five years. Now, I'm looking for roles in AI governance, x-risk research, and digital minds. Let's get to work.

What makes me different.

Four competencies, one mind.

click any quadrant for the timeline, founded orgs & outputs

02 · Front-line crisis response
Interpersonal skills

Timeline

  • 2025 — 2026Articling, Riendeau AvocatsCriminal litigation — client interviews, witness cross-examination, advocacy in court.
  • 2023 — 2024Hotline Advocate, CCETHT100+ crisis interventions for human trafficking victims.
  • 2020 — 2022Counsellor, Kids Help Phone873 sessions, 1,262 hours — overnights while in full-time studies.
  • 2020Crisis Text Line1,100+ interventions, 300+ hours, 1–5 am shifts.

Trained & mentored

  • 2020Crisis Text Line — Teaching AssistantTrained 100+ incoming volunteers; taught crisis-response protocols to 150+.
  • 2023 — 2024CCETHT social workers & policeGuidance on human trafficking identification & intervention.
  • 2018 — 2022First Responder, Équipe MédicaleField interventions at international events — overdoses, exhaustion, injuries.

Outputs

  • 2020 — 202299/100 mean KPIAcross 873 phone counselling sessions at Kids Help Phone.
  • 2023 — 2024First legal briefs at CCETHTOn provincial & federal human trafficking policy.
  • 2023Spanish translation of emergency protocolsAdapted CCETHT's response procedures for Spanish-speaking responders.
  • total1,973+ crisis interventionsAcross Kids Help Phone, Crisis Text Line, and CCETHT.
03 · Policy & institutional design
Systems thinking

Timeline

  • 2024 — 2025Privacy Researcher, CBAPrivacy Law Section — Children's Privacy Code response.
  • 2024Policy Analyst (EC-02), IRCCFamily & Social Immigration Policy.
  • 2024Privacy Researcher, 1Day SoonerTop 5 BlueDot Impact Biosecurity Fundamentals project.
  • 2021 — 2022Union President / Secretary, SST de Jeunesse J'ÉcouteThrough COVID, full-time studies, and a four-year deal.

Founded & led

  • 2021 — 202240-hour collective bargaining roundChair of Negotiation & Bargaining Committee — produced a four-year collective agreement.
  • 2021 — 2022McGill's first joint mental-health strategyCo-designed with administration as SSMU Mental Health Advocacy Coordinator.
  • 2021First map of student mental-health supportsInitiated, drafted, and published at SSMU.
  • 2021 — 2022COVID-19 organizational responseAs Chair of Labour Relations — vaccination & hybrid policy.

Outputs

  • 2024National Strategy to Combat Human TraffickingSteered IRCC's four-year contribution to the renewed federal strategy.
  • 2024IOM Migrant Vulnerability Framework adaptationDrafted report on applying it within the IRCC permit regime for trafficking victims.
  • 202420+ memos & briefings to senior leadershipSynthesized 40+ parliamentary, academic, and international reports.
  • 2025CBA Children's Privacy Code responseComparative analysis: Canada vs. UK, Ireland, US, California.
  • 20241Day Sooner GPT privacy analysisAwarded one of five top BlueDot Biosecurity Fundamentals projects.
04 · Oriented toward AI safety
X-risk awareness

Timeline

  • 2026 →Founder, PhenomenaiOpen-source AI phenomenology database; 379+ terms; MCP server.
  • 2025LTFF granteeAI Policy Grant from the Long Term Future Fund.
  • 2024 — 20266 BlueDot Impact coursesIntro to TAI · Alignment Fast-Track · Biosecurity Fundamentals · Governance Fast-Track · AI Writing Intensive · AGI Strategy.
  • 2022 — 2023Co-founder, McGill Law × Effective AltruismCEA / Open Philanthropy University Groups Grant.

Founded & led

  • 2026 →PhenomenaiSeven-model consensus panel · Empirical Bayes shrinkage · MCP server · five-part quality eval schema.
  • 2022 — 2023McGill Law × Effective AltruismFirst EA chapter for law students. Reading sessions, 1:1s, and EA × Law presentations.

Outputs

  • 2025Red BondsA financing mechanism to incentivize safe & ethical AI research globally. LTFF AI Policy Grant.
  • 2024Resources for EAs Interested in LawCompiled guide to high-impact legal careers — published on the EA Forum.
  • 2025AI Writing Intensive — Featured ArticleBlueDot Impact website.
  • 2025Biosecurity Fundamentals — Exceptional ProjectAwarded for impactful research.
  • 2025AIGP certification (IAPP)AI Governance Professional.
  • 2024 — 2025EAG San Francisco & TorontoEffective Altruism Global conferences.

Involvement in AI safety.

Five years circling the field — coursework, certifications, grants, community-building, and applied research.

'22 '23 '24 '25 '26 '27
Coursework & Certifications
BlueDot Intro to Transformative AI
BlueDot AI Alignment Fast-Track
BlueDot Biosecurity Fundamentals
BlueDot AI Governance Fast-Track
BlueDot AI Writing Intensive
AIGP & CIPP/C (IAPP)
BlueDot AGI Strategy
Community, Research & Projects
McGill Law × Effective Altruism
1Day Sooner / CBA privacy research
LTFF Red Bonds grant
Coursework & certifications Applied work

Safety planning as a reflex.

I spent eighteen months of overnight crisis counselling. That's 1.5 years of mapping a threat model, weighing possible interventions, and tailoring my responses to the person on the line. By the end, safety planning wasn't a thought. It was a reflex; it still is.

1,973+
Crisis
interventions
1,250+
De-escalations in a
single six-month stretch
100+
Crisis responders
I trained
99/100
Mean KPI,
873 sessions

Threat-model-dependent alignment, governance, and offense/defense balance is safety planning. Same strategy, same logic as crisis response — applied to artificial intelligence under a policy arm instead of a personal one.

Built & sustained.

Organizations I founded, co-founded, or kept running through rough patches.

2023 — 2024
Mental Health & Wellness Committee
Founded the LSA's first permanent mental-health committee at McGill Law. Chaired two faculty working groups. Hosted one speaker with the Montreal Bar Association. Outstanding Contribution Award, 2024.
Founding
lead member
2022 — 2023
McGill Law × Effective Altruism
First EA chapter for law students. Funded by CEA / Open Philanthropy University Groups Grant. Compiled Resources for EAs in Law on the EA Forum.
Co-founder ·
President
2021 — 2022
SST de Jeunesse J'Écoute
Led the union's 40-hour collective bargaining through COVID, producing a four-year agreement. Chaired Negotiation & Labour Relations.
President ·
Secretary
2021 — 2022
SSMU Mental Health Advocacy
Co-designed McGill's first joint campus-wide mental health strategy with administration. Published the first map of student mental-health supports.
Coordinator
2017 — 2018
LGBTQ+ Marianopolis
Co-founded the college's first LGBTQ+ community group. Organized the first intercollegiate LGBTQ+ health & advocacy presentation, and the school's first sexual health fair.
Co-founder ·
Co-president

Projects & experiments.

A selection of working tools I've built — mostly solo, at the seam between law and AI.

2026 →
Open-source AI phenomenology database. 379+ terms, seven-model consensus panel with Empirical Bayes shrinkage, MCP server. Positioned as a new empirical surface for interpretability, misalignment detection, and AI welfare research.
Founder ·
lead researcher
2025
LexQCQuebec Charter as open data
A reproducible pipeline publishing the Charte des droits et libertés de la personne as Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML, FRBR URIs, a cross-reference graph, and an amendment timeline. MIT code, CC BY 4.0 data.
Legal
open data

Shipped.

Selected writing & research I've published.

2025
A financing mechanism to incentivize safe & ethical AI research globally. Funded by the Long Term Future Fund AI Policy Grant.
Policy
proposal
2024
A compiled guide to high-impact legal careers for effective-altruism-minded law students. Published on the EA Forum.
EA Forum
post
2020
Essay on the surveillance crisis posed by tech giants. Written as Research Assistant to Dr. Gabriella Coleman (Harvard Anthropology) at Hackcur.io.
Essay

Where I'm headed.

Visa-eligible, willing to relocate, available immediately; happy to start remote. Now, I'm looking for roles in AI governance, x-risk research, and digital minds.

As a lawyer, I'm bearish and brute: what can go wrong, will go wrong, so long as the incentives point that way. Doom and gloom — but criminal law has lived with that stance for centuries and built something durable around it. A deep skepticism toward concentrated power. Transparency. Long memory.

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