How Far Should an AI Agent Be Allowed to Go?, The AI Runtime Boston
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How Far Should an AI Agent Be Allowed to Go?

  • Wednesday, August 5, 2026
  • Doors 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

An evening for people building, shipping, and scaling with AI. In this hands-on session with Adeuk, we gave an AI agent real tools, increasing autonomy, and a series of increasingly difficult assignments. What happens when it tries to access restricted data? Exceeds its authority? Takes an irreversible action? Finds a creative path around the rules?

In the room

From recent meetups

A packed room at Microsoft NERD watching the Configgo Lead Radar demo during show and tellPetros Hong presenting Apify Power to the Builders at the podiumThe kickoff talk with past hackathon wins on screenA builder demoing Prospect ScoutThe Azure IaC Generator demo during show and tellThe HackerSquad builder terminal showing The AI Runtime Boston livePizza boxes stacked in the lounge at Microsoft NERD before doorsA full room of practitioners at The AI Runtime Boston for AI as a TeammateNirmal Jingar presenting the AI Teammate Operating Model at the podiumAnanya Shah presenting Beyond the Private Chatbot to the roomAnanya Shah walking the audience through collaborative AI patternsPractitioners watching a talk at The AI Runtime BostonStacked pizza boxes with the Boston skyline through the window before doorsMichael R. Schulte presenting The Greenfield Delusion at the podiumPractitioners watching the Greenfield Delusion talkA live coding demo on the projector screen during the talkA speaker walking through a takeaways slide for the roomA speaker presenting to the seated audienceA full room of practitioners at The AI Runtime Boston
Agenda

How the night runs

  1. 6:00 PM Networking, food, and some dangerous ideas · meet other builders and propose challenges for the agent
  2. 6:30 PM The Agent Gauntlet with Adeuk · red-team the agent and the policies, review what executed, what was stopped, and why
  3. 8:00 PM Surviving production · open discussion
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