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; let's get to work.

Not a pivot. A convergence.

2015–2018music / sci
2018–2021cogsci + crisis
2021–2022crisis + union
2023clinics + policy
2024IRCC → AI
2025law + AI cert
2026 →phenomenai
crisis / clinical policy / legal AI safety

Sustained interest in AI safety.

Estimated hours per year, split between structured coursework and applied initiatives.

800h 600h 400h 200h 0
430
2022
290
2023
190
2024
400
2025
620
2026
Courses Initiatives

Courses: BlueDot Impact (6 completed, 2 awarded), IAPP AIGP & CIPP/C. Initiatives: Phenomenai, Long Term Future Fund Red Bonds grant, 1Day Sooner privacy research, Effective Altruism × McGill Law, EAG San Francisco (2023) & EAG Toronto (2024). 2026 is year-to-date.

By the numbers.

1,973+
Crisis
interventions
379
Terms shipped
on Phenomenai
6
BlueDot Impact
courses
3
Languages
(EN / FR / ES)

What makes me different.

Four competencies, one mind.

01 · Credentialed
Legal skills
B.C.L. & J.D. (McGill, bijural). École du Barreau 2026. Privacy & AI governance (AIGP, CIPP/C).
02 · Human-facing
Interpersonal skills
1,973+ crisis interventions (Kids Help Phone, Crisis Text Line). Criminal litigation as an articling student.
03 · Institutional
Systems thinking
Union president through a 40-hour bargaining round. Policy analyst at IRCC shaping the national anti-trafficking strategy.
04 · Oriented
X-risk awareness
6 BlueDot Impact courses (2 awarded). LTFF grantee. AIGP certified. EAG San Francisco & Toronto.

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. 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 →
Phenomenai
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
Rabbitor
Highlight-and-chat annotation tool. Web app + Obsidian plugin (submitted to the community store, PR #12140). Multi-provider AI (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama); BYO keys, stored locally.
Web + Obsidian
plugin
2025
LexQC — Quebec 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
Red Bonds
A financing mechanism to incentivize safe & ethical AI research globally. Funded by the Long Term Future Fund AI Policy Grant.
Policy
proposal
2024
Resources for EAs Interested in Law
A compiled guide to high-impact legal careers for effective-altruism-minded law students. Published on the EA Forum.
EA Forum
post
2020
1984 is Now
Essay on the surveillance crisis posed by tech giants. Written as Research Assistant to Dr. Gabriella Coleman (Harvard Anthropology) at Hackcur.io.
Essay
One-page CV LinkedIn julian.guidote [at] mail.mcgill.ca

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