person
Tegan Maharaj
HEC Montréal; ML safety, ecology, and ethics
Assistant professor at HEC Montréal whose research bridges machine learning safety, ecology, and the political economy of training data. Active in NeurIPS workshop organization on responsible ML.
current Assistant Professor, HEC Montréal; Affiliated Researcher, Mila
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Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues ML safety must integrate ecological, economic, and labor harms, not only model misalignment, into a single research agenda.
Concrete safety problems are environmental, social, and political at the same time as they are technical. The boundary the field draws around 'safety' is itself a normative choice.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.