Leak Reveals Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

What unites this list more than any position or office is the preoccupation with innovation, longevity, and the near future. When asked on a registration form to predict the future, applicants repeatedly returned to the same theme: that AI will reshape work, war, education, and faith in a few years. Several foresee a mass migration of workers and a return to government institutions and programs; others predict an “AI cold,” domestic criminals targeting data centers, defendants choosing AI attorneys over human prosecutors, or a religious revival that causes confusion.

“The depravity of mankind,” predicted one man, “will continue to increase.”

Members also list talents such as “creating a fun house,” mimicking sound, urban skating, urban exploration, and “meditative and psychedelic exploration of reality”; one offers “sympathy and fear of presence,” another “dinner parties, keeping secrets, remembering birthdays.” Their book ideas draw from the canonical and idealistic, Marcus Aurelius and Milan Kundera along with Annie Duke. Thinking in BetsPeter Attia Getting outand, from one attendee, Thiel himself Zero to One.

Dialog also plays matchmaker. Their participation form asks registrants if they are “looking for love” and offers to include respondents “Single Man,” “Single Woman,” or “Other” in “future matchmaking.” Different places, dating.dialog.orghas a program called “good connections for special people.”

The form also collects sensitive responses, including the “political leanings” of each subscriber, which Dialog promises will “NOT be shared in the program or with others.” The same, and similar responses, were revealed in the leak.

The documents are housed in Airtable, a commercial database. For each participant, Dialog records membership information, every return the person has been to, history, home city, and a private label. WIRED does not publish tokens, which serve as login tokens, or links to your shared accounts.

The leaked census list also names key figures missing from the 113 population register: Randy Kroszner, a former Federal Reserve governor who now serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, former general counsel and chief of staff for the Drug Enforcement Administration; Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel-winning economist at the University of Chicago.

It also recruits a group of Google and Google DeepMind managers, among them Tom Lue, who leads global affairs for the company’s AI division, and another working journalist, Souad Mekhennet, national security correspondent for The Washington Post. (He is credited with running an event called the “Ulysses Book Club.”)

The rest of the hedge fund members are billionaires, foreign and former foreign dignitaries, television personalities, best-selling authors, and religious leaders.

One of several internal notes Dialog left on the same website that contained its registration history is a guide to event organizers, urging them to remind participants that everything is “hidden” and that comments should be short and “inconspicuous.” It also teaches them to present a brief statement to “avoid signing history” in a room full of senators, dignitaries, and tycoons.