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: TBD

​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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​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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