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Marc-Antoine Dilhac

Marc-Antoine Dilhac is a political philosopher at the Université de Montréal who studies the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence. After a doctorate in political philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he joined Montréal in 2013 and held the Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory from 2014 to 2019. In 2017, he instigated the Montréal Declaration for a Responsible Development of AI and chaired its scientific committee, a process that brought over 500 citizens, experts and stakeholders into 15 deliberation workshops. He founded Algora Lab in 2019, held a CIFAR Chair in AI Ethics from 2019 to 2024, and led an international deliberation process for UNESCO's AI ethics consultation in 2020. He is an associate professor of philosophy at Montréal, an associate academic member of Mila, and Scientific Director for Governance and International Collaboration at OBVIA.

Now at
Mila, Algora Lab and International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies
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Timeline

  1. 2013

    Joining Université de Montréal

    After a doctorate in political philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he joins the Université de Montréal in 2013 as an assistant professor of ethics and political philosophy. He also directs the Ethics and Politics axis of the Centre de recherche en éthique.

  2. 2014–2019

    Canada Research Chair in ethics

    He holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory from 2014 to 2019. In May 2014, Vrin publishes his essay La tolérance, un risque pour la démocratie? Théorie d'un impératif politique, on the paradoxes of tolerance and democracy.

  3. 2017–2018

    The Montréal Declaration

    In November 2017, the Université de Montréal launches the co-construction process for the Montréal Declaration for a Responsible Development of AI, which he instigates and whose scientific committee he chairs. Over three months, 15 deliberation workshops bring together more than 500 citizens, experts and stakeholders.

  4. 2019–2024

    Founding Algora Lab

    In 2019, he founds Algora Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory for research on the ethics of AI and a deliberative approach to the governance of AI and digital technologies. He holds a CIFAR Chair in AI Ethics from 2019 to 2024.

  5. 2020

    UNESCO's AI ethics consultation

    In 2020, as director of Algora Lab, he leads an international deliberation process within UNESCO's consultations on its Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. In July 2020, the Quebec government announces $65,000 in support for Mila to take on the deliberative part of the global online consultation, which Algora Lab and the Université de Montréal conduct with Mila.

  6. 2021–2023

    Guides and reports at OBVIA

    At OBVIA, the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies, he coauthors a guide to deliberation on responsible AI in March 2021 and a report with 10 recommendations on AI in finance in November 2021. In 2023, he coauthors the report Ethics at the heart of AI on the role of ethics in AI development.

  7. As of October 2026

    Philosophy, Mila and OBVIA

    He is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, Scientific Director of Algora Lab, and an associate academic member of Mila. In February 2026, Quebec's Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie mandates OBVIA and him, as its Scientific Director for Governance and International Collaboration, to lead the implementation of UNESCO's Readiness Assessment Methodology in Quebec.

Career

  1. Since 2026International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital TechnologiesScientific Director for Governance and International Collaboration
  2. Since 2019Algora LabFounder, Scientific Director
  3. Since 2013Université de MontréalAssistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy
  4. NowMilaAssociate Academic Member
  5. 2019–2024CIFARCIFAR Chair in AI Ethics
  6. From 2013Research Centre for EthicsDirector

Education

  1. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneDoctorate in Political Philosophy

From the biography.

  1. Of 216 AI researchers who entered public life, 83 held advisory seats and 58 took public rolesIncludes Marc-Antoine Dilhac. Of 216 AI researchers who entered public life, 83 held advisory seats and 58 took public roles. Another 97 people moved from public careers into AI organizations or research, with 62% of dated records starting from 2020 on.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Université de Montréal. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes Université de Montréal. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  4. Universities (31%) and startups and other companies (25%) employ the largest shares of 2020–2026 entrantsIncludes Mila. Among 819 people whose first recorded role started in 2020–2026 and who have a known current organization, 60% work in commercial sectors (25% at startups and other companies, 23% at frontier labs and 13% at big tech, with 9 in two), and 31% work at universities, compared with 66% for earlier entrants.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Marc-Antoine Dilhac - La Vie des idées laviedesidees.fr. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Marc-Antoine Dilhac : AI Expert - OECD.AI oecd.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Marc-Antoine Dilhac | Mila mila.quebec. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. La tolerance, un risque pour la democratie? | ISD isdistribution.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. About - Déclaration de Montréal IA responsable montrealdeclaration-responsibleai.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Le gouvernement du Québec soutient Mila pour la réalisation d'un mandat dans le cadre de la consultation mondiale sur l'éthique de l'intelligence artificielle de l'UNESCO quebec.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Marc-Antoine Dilhac | Obvia - Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique obvia.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.