The Observer Effect
Hosted by AI Socratic NY + Federico Ulfo + Ivo Galić + Anissa Felix + Andrew Hamilton + Matt Rabitsky + Andi Partovi
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What to look forward to
Top-tier AI engineers, researchers, and founders will explore frontier models, coding agents, orchestrators, research, and whether models recognize when they’re being evaluated through focused Socratic discussion and technical presentations. The highly selective gathering will also spotlight developer environments, AI tools, and open-source orchestrators.
Inside the event
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.
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New York, NY
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