Bot or Not - Socratic Dialogue Regarding Agents Like Claw

Debate starts at 7! Door's open at 6:30.

Bot or Not - Socratic Dialogue Regarding Agents (like Claw)

Patrick Farry and Ronald Petty will lead a Socratic-style dialogue examining Claw and other emerging agentic systems, using live demonstrations to highlight recent advances in agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, and tool-using models. Through questioning, counter-examples, and audience participation, they will explore alignment, incentive design, robustness, misuse, and governance; asking not only what today’s agents can do, but how rapidly evolving capabilities are reshaping expectations and risks. Real-time demos will ground the discussion in current practice rather than theory, while the session aims to keep attendees up to date on the state of the art and engaged in reasoning about trade-offs, safeguards, and the future role of autonomous systems in technical and social domains.