Leak reveals members of Peter Thiel’s secret “Dialogue” society

What ties the list together more than any title or office is a shared preoccupation with artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future. When asked to predict the future, sign-up form registrants repeatedly returned to the same theme: that artificial intelligence will rearrange work, war, education, and belief within a few years. Many of them expect a mass exodus of labor and a return to unions and government programs; Others predict an “AI winter,” domestic terrorism targeting data centers, criminal defendants choosing AI lawyers instead of public defenders, or a religious revival resulting from the turmoil.

“Societal decline will continue to accelerate,” one person predicted.

Members also list such talents as “building fun houses”, dialect mimicry, backcountry skiing, urban exploration, and “contemplative and psychedelic investigation into the nature of reality”; One offers “compassion and existential dread,” the other “dinner parties, keeping secrets, and remembering birthdays.” Their book recommendations skew towards Marcus Aurelius and Milan Kundera, who are traditionally and idealistically minded, along with those of Annie Duke. Think about the betsPeter Attia Surviveand from at least one attendee, Thiel’s own Zero to one.

Dialogue also plays the role of matchmaker. Its participant form asks registrants if they are “looking for love” and offers to include participants as “single man,” “single woman,” or “others” in their “future matchmaking.” separate site, dating.dialog.orghosts an app pitched as “Meaningful Connections for Extraordinary People.”

The form also collects sensitive answers, including each registrant’s “political leanings,” which Dialog promises will “never be shared in the app or with other participants.” This data and matchmaking responses were revealed in the leak.

The records are in Airtable, a commercial database. For each participant, Dialog records membership status, each retreat attended by the person, bio, city of origin, and a special access code. WIRED does not publish tokens, which serve as login credentials, or the personal account links they contain.

The leaked registration list also names prominent figures absent from the 113’s public directory: Randy Krosner, a former Federal Reserve governor who now serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Haley Hoffman, former general counsel and acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler, President of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, Executive Director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, the Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago.

The list also includes a group of executives at Google and Google DeepMind, including Tom Lu, who leads global affairs for the company’s frontier AI division, and staff journalist Souad Mikhnit, a national security correspondent for The Washington Post. (She is listed as running an event called the “Ulysses Book Club.”)

The rest of the membership includes hedge fund and private equity billionaires, current and former foreign officials, television network representatives, best-selling authors, and religious leaders.

One of several internal documents that Dialogue left exposed on the same online database that kept its registration logs is a guide for event moderators, urging them to remind participants that everything is “off the record” and that comments should be brief and “non-obvious.” He also coaches them to make brief introductions to “avoid signaling status” in a room full of senators, dignitaries and business tycoons.