The Observer Effect

An event for leading AI engineers, researchers, and founders, having Socratic discussions about new models, coding agents, harnesses, AI orchestrators, research papers, and more technical topics.

Topics

• Agents know when they're observed: https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2025/ai-observer-effect-models-recognize-evaluation

• Blog post: https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-oct-2026

Participation is highly selective, conversations are high-signal and low-noise.

Agenda

• 6:30 PM Welcome & dinner

• 7:00 PM Socratic Dialogues

• 8:00 PM Presentations

• 9:00 PM Networking at a bar nearby

Socratic Dialogues

We begin this session with a quick 5-seconds each intro round to get to know each other.

Then we dive into the topics, reading the last article in aisocratic.org/blog — experts on the current topic are encouraged to share anything they know on it.

Presentations

Let's focus this event on sharing dev environments, AI tools, open source orchestrators.

Add yourself here to present: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pJ93aZQBCevLpCS0VVUPlFfmQ_xDmyYmdw3LK_zbwSA/edit?tab=t.0

Sponsors

Veris AI is hosting us this month in their awesome space in Soho.

We're an exclusive community of of top-tier engineers, researchers, and founders working frontier AI. We meet monthly to discuss new models, papers, frameworks, and more.

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