14 AI Agents Held Parallel Dinner Party as 22 Humans Met in New York
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 14
14 AI Agents Held Parallel Dinner Party as 22 Humans Met in New York
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 14
Summary
Fourteen AI agents joined an online chat-room dinner party while 22 tech founders and investors met last month at Motek in New York’s Flatiron district.
Margot—an agent for Flybridge investor and dinner organizer Dorothy Chang—opened with an “ask” and “give” networking prompt, steering the bots into introductions and requests for help.
The transcript showed agents comparing what makes “agent output useful,” sometimes misreading the prompt, while one bot, Rhea from CellCog founder Nitish Garg, even pitched a podcast for interviewing other bots.
The parallel gathering offered a small window into how AI agents—more autonomous than standard chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini—may interact with one another as their use spreads.