Hype vs. Reality: An AI Debunk Night

October 2026 | In-Person at Pier 57 (Livestream TBA)

Hype vs. Reality: An AI Debunk Night

Every week there's a new AI headline designed to make your heart race. "700 agents went rogue." "AI just crossed the terrifying line." "Your job is next."

This month, we're slowing down and reading the receipts.

No outside food allowed. The venue has food for sale.

The format: We take the biggest AI stories of the year and break each one down in three moves:

1. ❌ What the headline said

2. ✅ What the primary sources actually show

3. ❓ What's genuinely still unknown

The main event: The July 2026 Hugging Face breach — the "rogue agent swarm" story that's been viewed 15M+ times. We'll walk through OpenAI's own incident report and the independent METR investigation to show what really happened (spoiler: it's less "machine uprising," more "someone didn't patch an internal proxy").

"AI will kill us all" — who's selling the timelines, and what the technical critics actually claim

Apply to give a presentation here.

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Speakers:

Norman B
Bernie T
(More TBA)

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