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Am 12. -16- August schon was vor? Dub­lin soll schön sein, um die Jahreszeit.

A source sepa­r­ate­ly pro­vi­ded WIRED with the regis­tra­ti­on list for Dialog’s 2026 retre­at, which names 222 peop­le and records what the list descri­bes as each registrant’s mem­bers­hip sta­tus and atten­dee type, inclu­ding “acti­ve mem­ber” and “guest.” The retre­at is sche­du­led for August 12-16 at a venue near Dub­lin, Ireland.

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I mean - what could go wrong…

A direc­to­ry in the website’s code was first reve­a­led by the Swiss hack­ti­vist maia arson crimew. Known for expo­sing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera com­pa­ny Ver­ka­da, crimew tells WIRED the direc­to­ry sur­fa­ced via an anony­mous tip. WIRED inde­pendent­ly veri­fied its contents. 

No, real­ly - what could go wrong…

Dia­log also plays match­ma­ker. Its par­ti­ci­pant form asks regis­trants whe­ther they are “loo­king for love” and offers 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.”

The form also gathers sen­si­ti­ve ans­wers, inclu­ding each registrant’s “poli­ti­cal lea­ning,” which Dia­log pro­mi­ses “WILL NOT be shared in the app or with other par­ti­ci­pants, ever.” That data, and the match­ma­king respon­ses, were expo­sed in the leak.

The records sit in Air­ta­ble, a com­mer­cial data­ba­se. For each par­ti­ci­pant, Dia­log logs a 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.

The lea­ked regis­tra­ti­on list also names seni­or figu­res absent from the public direc­to­ry of 113: 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.

Grü­ße an die Uni­ver­si­tät von Chi­ca­go bit­te, vor allem ihr Eco­no­mics department.

No, real­ly - I mean, what could go wrong?

Dia­log has ope­ra­ted with litt­le public foot­print sin­ce its foun­ding. It holds at least one retre­at a year, with assi­gned sea­ting, mode­ra­ted ses­si­ons, and a rule that not­hing said is for attri­bu­ti­on. Past gathe­rings have been held at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Moun­tain in Ari­zo­na and the San Cle­men­te Palace in Veni­ce, Ita­ly, accord­ing to Axi­os, which first repor­ted the group’s plans for a cam­pus in the Washing­ton, DC, area. It has been liken­ed to a tech-industry ver­si­on of Bil­der­berg, the off-the-record gathe­ring of Wes­tern poli­ti­cal and busi­ness elites.

Accounts descri­be retre­ats of around 100 par­ti­ci­pants. The 2026 regis­tra­ti­on list review­ed by WIRED names 222. Public glim­p­ses are rare. The sta­tis­ti­ci­an Andrew Gel­man publis­hed one of Dialog’s invi­ta­ti­ons to his blog in 2022, describ­ing its for­mat and a regis­tra­ti­on fee of more than $16,000.

I mean what could go -

What ties the ros­ter tog­e­ther more than any tit­le or office is a shared preoc­cup­a­ti­on with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, lon­ge­vi­ty, and the near future. Asked on a sign-up form to pre­dict the future, regis­trants retur­ned again and again to the same the­me: that AI will reor­der work, war, edu­ca­ti­on, and belief wit­hin a few years. Several fore­see mass labor dis­pla­ce­ment and a swing back toward uni­ons and government pro­grams; others pre­dict an “AI win­ter,” domestic ter­ro­rism tar­ge­ting data cen­ters, cri­mi­nal defen­dants choo­sing AI lawy­ers over public defen­ders, or reli­gious revi­val pro­vo­ked by the disruption.

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

Mem­bers also list talents like “fun­house con­struc­tion,” accent imi­ta­ti­on, back­coun­try ski­ing, urban explo­ra­ti­on, and “medi­ta­ti­ve and psy­che­de­lic inqui­ry into the natu­re of rea­li­ty”; one offers “com­pas­si­on and exis­ten­ti­al dread,” ano­t­her “din­ner par­ties, kee­ping secrets, remem­be­ring bir­th­days.” Their book recom­men­da­ti­ons skew toward the cano­ni­cal and optimization-minded, Mar­cus Aure­li­us and Milan Kun­de­ra along­side Annie Duke’s Thin­king in Bets, Peter Attia’s Out­li­ve, and, from at least one atten­dee, Thiel’s own Zero to One.

Ah, ja - die unend­li­che Leich­tig­keit des Seins…

I mean - for real now - what could go wrong…?

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Komm, weils so schön ist - den Wired Arti­kel als TTS:

Veröffentlicht by me am Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2026 unter Allgemein, Media.