Peter Thiel's secret club leaked

The secretive Dialog club, co-founded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, has been exposed after internal files were leaked online. The files revealed names of participants, schedules of private meetings and personal information of people who were assured that their information would remain private.

Dialog, founded in 2006 as a private, invite-only organization, has been bringing together figures from American politics, Silicon Valley, the financial world, and foreign governments for nearly two decades in meetings without cameras, without public minutes, and without an official membership list.

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The exposed files include a registration list for the 2026 Dialog meeting, scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin. The list shows 222 people, along with their status within the organization, such as “active member” or “guest.”

The meeting's agenda seems to encapsulate many of the obsessions of today's tech elite: artificial intelligence, war, politics, survival, money, influence, and personal relationships. Among the topics are sessions with titles like "Can Money Buy Happiness?", "Bring Back Nuclear Power," "Navigating World War III," "Battlefield Technologies," and "How's Your Sex Life?"

Even more impressive are the sessions on how to “build” a sect or political party. The first is reportedly moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, while the second is linked to a former White House national security official.

The files feature figures from politics, defense, technology, data, artificial intelligence, think tanks and the media. They include government officials, public figures, tech executives, investors, founders of data and surveillance companies, as well as individuals associated with the so-called PayPal Mafia.

The leak is not only interesting because it reveals names. It mainly shows the coexistence of different forms of power within the same closed network. Executives of companies active in data, surveillance, artificial intelligence and defense appear next to officials and politicians involved in the regulation or supervision of these fields.

A common thread among many participants seems to be an obsession with artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future. In a registration form, where participants were asked to make predictions for the coming years, the answers come back again and again to artificial intelligence and how it might change work, war, education, and religion.

Some predict mass displacement of workers, others the return of unions and government programs, a possible “hibernation” of artificial intelligence, attacks on data centers, defendants choosing legal defense from machines instead of public defenders, and even a religious revival in response to the disruption that technology will cause.

Dialog didn’t just function as a closed space for exchanging ideas. Records show it also had a dating dimension. The application form asked registrants if they were “looking for love,” while a separate Dialog website hosted a dating app that advertised itself as a place for “meaningful connections between great people.”

The same form also collected sensitive personal information, such as political affiliation and dating responses, with the assurance that it would never be shared with the app or other participants. This information was also included in the data that was left exposed.

The files were stored in an Airtable database. For each participant, Dialog recorded their membership status, meetings attended, bio, city of residence, and private password.

The existence of the exposed list in the website's code was initially revealed by Swiss hacktivist Maia Arson Crimew, known for previous revelations, including the US government's No Fly list and the breach of surveillance camera company Verkada.

Dialog has a minimal public footprint. Previous reports have described it as a tech version of Bilderberg, the closed network of meetings of Western political and business elites. The organization has previously held meetings in Arizona and Venice, and there have been plans for a permanent location in the Washington area.

The new data opens a rare window into a network where Silicon Valley, political power, defense, data, artificial intelligence and the culture of self-improvement all meet without public scrutiny. What’s most striking is not just who appears on the list, but the kind of world that seems to be discussed behind closed doors.

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