Leak Reveals Dialog Society’s Private AI, Matchmaking Data

A leaked registration dataset tied to Peter Thiel’s Dialog society surfaced on an Airtable database, exposing members’ private access tokens, matchmaking responses, retreat history, and even political leaning collected through sign-up forms. The records also l

For some people, the first thing they do at a “Dialog” sign-up is try to imagine the near future. In the leaked registration data, registrants repeatedly circle the same theme: artificial intelligence will reorder work, war, education, and belief within a few years.

But the leak doesn’t just reveal what members think. It shows how the society collects sensitive answers, how it organizes access to participants, and who was in the room long before any public roster was updated. Those private details—stored on a commercial database—are now out in the open.

Dialog’s sign-up form asked people to predict the future. Registrants’ responses ranged from mass labor displacement. with some forecasting a swing back toward unions and government programs. to darker scenarios that include an “AI winter. ” domestic terrorism targeting data centers. and criminal defendants choosing AI lawyers instead of public defenders. Others wrote about religious revival provoked by disruption, while one person predicted that “societal degeneration” would continue to accelerate.

The dataset also captures the softer, personal side of the group. Members listed talents and interests such as “funhouse construction. ” accent imitation. backcountry skiing. urban exploration. and “meditative and psychedelic inquiry into the nature of reality.” Some offered more inward descriptions—“compassion and existential dread”—while others wrote for a social life that includes “dinner parties. keeping secrets. remembering birthdays.”.

Book recommendations skew toward canonical and optimization-minded authors. The leaked list includes Marcus Aurelius and Milan Kundera alongside Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets, Peter Attia’s Outlive, and, from at least one attendee, Peter Thiel’s Zero to One.

Dialog also plays matchmaker. In the participant form. registrants were asked whether they are “looking for love. ” and the platform offered to include “Single Man. ” “Single Woman. ” or “Other” respondents in “future matchmaking.” A separate site. dating.dialog.org. hosts an app pitched as “meaningful connections for exceptional people.”.

Alongside those relationship prompts, the form collected sensitive information. It asked each registrant’s “political leaning,” and Dialog promised that the data “WILL NOT be shared in the app or with other participants, ever.” The leak exposed those answers and the matchmaking responses.

The registration records sit in Airtable, a commercial database. For each participant. Dialog logged membership status. every retreat the person has attended. a biography. a home city. and a private access token. WIRED is not publishing the tokens, which function as login credentials, or the personalized account links that contain them.

Still, the exposure is enough to show how tightly personal data is tied to access and participation. The leaked registration list also includes names not shown in Dialog’s public directory of 113. The records name senior figures absent from that public roster: Randy Kroszner. a former governor of the Federal Reserve who now serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman. a former general counsel and acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Jonathan Greenblatt. the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler. the president of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers. the executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson. a Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago.

The leak further lists a cluster of Google and Google DeepMind executives. Among them is Tom Lue, who leads global affairs for the company’s frontier AI division. It also includes one working journalist, Souad Mekhennet, a national security correspondent for The Washington Post. She is listed as running an event called “Ulysses Book Club.”.

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

The registration data isn’t the only internal material Dialog left exposed. A separate internal document—also left in the same online database—functions as a guide for event moderators. It urges them to remind participants that everything is “off the record” and that comments should be concise and “nonobvious.” Moderators are coached to model brief introductions “to avoid status signaling” in rooms described as containing senators. dignitaries. and tycoons.

Together, the leak paints a picture of a society that treats its future-facing thinking and intimate matchmaking as part of the same private ecosystem: ideas, access, and personal details all routed through forms, tokens, retreats, and moderator scripts—now visible to anyone who finds the database.

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