About | AI Socratic

The AI Community forAI Engineers

Join 1,500+ engineers, researchers, and founders working on frontier AI — across 15 chapters worldwide.

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No fees, no pitch decks. What membership gets you

Active Members

Chapters Worldwide

Curated events per year

Repeat attendance across events

Our story

Seven friends, bored by noisy AI events, started meeting over dinner to talk about new models, research papers, and AI agents. Today AI Socratic runs monthly in New York, San Francisco, Milan, Shanghai, and beyond. What sets us apart is the Socratic method — every expert in the room joins the conversation, which keeps it dynamic and fun.

The format

Our events

A monthly symposium with engineers, researchers, and founders working in AI. Just like an intimate concert, each of our events offers a unique experience, with new locations and new people, but always with the same passion, quality, and fun.

1
6:00 PM
Dinner
Doors open and dinner starts. We eat, drink, and meet new people in a laid-back setting — good food, easy conversation, and music to set the vibes.
2
6:30 PM
Intro and selfie
We go around the room with a quick round of introductions — who you are and what you're working on — then squeeze everyone into one frame. Every chapter takes a selfie to capture the room and shares it with the others.
3
7:00 PM
Socratic Dialogues
The heart of the night: a moderated conversation on the latest in AI — new models, research papers, philosophy, geopolitics — structured around the last month blog post in a slide format. Everyone is encouraged to contribute, and experts on the topic share what they know.
4
8:30 PM
Presentations & demos
Bring a problem, an architecture challenge, or something you've built and learned from. Short show-and-tell sessions meant to level up everyone in the room.
5
9:00 PM
Networking
We close out at a bar nearby, where the group conversation splinters into many smaller ones.

Around the world

Our chapters

A chapter is a local, autonomous node of the network — run by ambassadors who share the mission and host the monthly symposium in their city. Each chapter follows the same format and the same quality bar, with its own community and its own flavor. These are our active chapters:

World map with flags marking active AI Socratic chapters

New YorkMilanMadridSan FranciscoBerlinRomeTurinWashington DCShanghaiLisbonLondonCape TownBerkeleyBarcelonaStockholm

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Our mission is to democratize AI

We believe human flourishing will come from a combination of open source and decentralization, and especially keeping what makes us human: connecting with other people.