The common thread among the members is a shared focus on artificial intelligence, life extension, and near‑term societal change. When completing the registration questionnaire about future predictions, participants repeatedly emphasized that AI will transform work, conflict, education, and belief within the coming years. Some anticipate widespread job displacement and a resurgence of unions and government programs, while others warn of an “AI winter,” domestic attacks on data centers, defendants opting for AI legal counsel instead of public defenders, or a religious resurgence driven by technological disruption.
One participant forecasted that “societal degeneration will continue to accelerate.”
Members cite a range of abilities, including funhouse construction, accent mimicry, backcountry skiing, urban exploration, and meditative or psychedelic exploration of reality. Others mention offering compassion paired with existential dread, or hosting dinner parties, safeguarding secrets, and recalling birthdays. Their reading list leans toward classic and strategic works such as Marcus Aurelius, Milan Kundera, Annie Duke’s *Thinking in Bets*, Peter Attia’s *Outlive*, and Thiel’s *Zero to One*.
Dialog functions as a matchmaker, with its registration form asking participants whether they seek a romantic partner and offering to match “Single Man,” “Single Woman,” or “Other” respondents in future pairings. A companion site, dating.dialog.org, provides an app marketed as “meaningful connections for exceptional people.”
The form also collects sensitive information, such as each registrant’s political leaning, which Dialog assures will never be shared within the app or with other participants. This data, along with the matchmaking responses, was exposed in the leak.
The records are stored in Airtable, a commercial database. For each participant, Dialog maintains membership status, a list of retreats attended, a biography, hometown, and a private access token that serves as a login credential. WIRED will not publish the tokens or the personalized account links that contain them.
The leaked roster also includes senior figures not listed in the public directory of 113 members: Randy Kroszner, former Federal Reserve governor now serving on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, former general counsel and acting chief of staff of the DEA; 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, Nobel‑winning economist at the University of Chicago.
The list also includes a cluster of Google and DeepMind executives, notably Tom Lue, who heads global affairs for the company’s frontier AI division, and journalist Souad Mekhennet, a national security correspondent for The Washington Post (listed as organizer of the “Ulysses Book Club”).
The remainder of the membership comprises hedge‑fund and private‑equity billionaires, current and former foreign officials, television actors, best‑selling authors, and religious leaders.
One of several internal documents exposed on the same database as the registration records is a guide for event moderators, instructing them to remind participants that discussions are “off the record,” keep comments concise and “non‑obvious,” and deliver brief introductions to avoid status signaling among senators, dignitaries, and tycoons.
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