The participant list for the secret 'Dialogue' meetings organized by billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has been leaked. According to a report by The Guardian, the leaked documents contain the names of leading figures from the tech world, including Elon Musk, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
How did the list emerge?
The participant list for this year's Dialogue meetings was made public on June 15 after being mistakenly added to the organization's website. The list, archived by the Internet Archive, was later shared on the Bluesky social media platform by Swiss digital activist Maya Arson Crime.
The meeting is known as an event held since 2006, taking place in luxurious locations around the world and open only to invited guests. The Guardian notes that these meetings resemble other elite semi-secret conferences like the Bilderberg Group and Bohemian Grove, but are more closed.
Who is among the participants?
Some of the notable names on the leaked list include:
- Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and the X platform
- OpenAI President Greg Brockman
- OpenAI's head of strategy, Jason Kwon
- Shivon Zilis, operations director at Musk's company Neuralink and mother of his children
- Jared Kushner, son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump
- Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
- YouTube President Neal Mohan
It is also reported that six people from the group known as the 'PayPal Mafia' attended past meetings, and government officials from the U.S. and other countries were also on the list.
At the center of the AI agenda
According to Wired magazine, artificial intelligence was a prominent topic at the meeting. Session titles on the agenda included 'Does Money Buy Happiness?', 'Bring Back Nuclear Energy', 'Managing World War III', and 'Battlefield Technologies'.
Researcher Janine Wedel from George Mason University stated that such meetings are places where the most powerful elites come together to shape elite opinion, and this poses a fundamental problem for democracy.
