{"id":2467657,"date":"2026-06-19T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2467657"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:55:32","slug":"joseph-gordon-levitt-sophia-bush-defend-ties-to-dialog-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joseph-gordon-levitt-sophia-bush-defend-ties-to-dialog-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sophia Bush Defend Ties to Dialog Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tJoseph Gordon-Levitt<\/a> and Sophia Bush<\/a> are among the Hollywood actors jumping to defend their involvement with billionaire investor Peter Thiel<\/a>\u2018s mysterious Dialog<\/a> group, assuring fans that they do not know the controversial conservative political activist and that the meetings are not \u201ca single ideological gathering.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe stars, including Josh Brolin<\/a>, are responding to a list of attendees leaked to The Hollywood Reporter and published this week<\/a>, revealing to the public their affiliation with the private and invite-only group that is linked to Thiel, the co-founder of data analytics firm Palantir Technologies and the man apparently behind the group, which invites powerbrokers across the world in politics, tech and media to discuss \u201coff-the-record ideas\u201d in privacy.<\/p>\n

\n\tResearcher Maia Arson Crimes provided THR with materials about the group, including a membership directory and details about this year\u2019s upcoming forum. Brolin, Gordon-Levitt, Bush, Scooter Braun, Isaac Lee, A24\u2019s Scott Belsky, composer-producer Benj Pasek, CEO of The Atlantic Nick Thompson and Ezra Klein of The New York Times were among the famous names in the directory. It also includes Trump administration officials, two senators, six members of the so-called PayPal Mafia, a current ambassador to the United States, and several billionaires, including Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

\n\tScrutiny of Dialog and those named on the leaked list has been growing, as questions swirl about how and why these Hollywood actors were invited to the secretive conferences and why they are rubbing elbows with several individuals with opposing perspectives to discuss important, hot-button issues in the shadows.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI understand why people have questions and are suspicious,\u201d Gordon-Levitt wrote in a statement on his personal Instagram. <\/a>\u201cSome of the headlines and posts circulating about this are alarming, if not bizarre. So let me clarify: I have been to two Dialog conferences. But, I do not know Peter Thiel. I\u2019ve never met him. I\u2019ve never spoken with him or his representatives. I\u2019ve never seen him at an event. From what I\u2019ve read about his views, we are political and ideological opposites.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt the Dialog conferences I\u2019ve been to, there were a wide variety of people, with a wide variety of opinions, some I agreed with, some I didn\u2019t. I can\u2019t speak to every person named in the reporting, but my experience was not of a single ideological gathering,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tBush, who has become an advocate against deepfake technology and executive-produced the documentary Another Body on the topic, said in a statement posted to social media<\/a> that she attends conferences to promote the film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou can imagine my surprise to learn that a conference I was invited to as a guest who could counter the \u2018it\u2019s-all-progress\u2019 narrative of this seeming runaway AI race was founded by someone you could not pay me to be in a room with, let alone charge me money to be in a room with,\u201d Bush wrote. \u201cTo be clear, that individual was not present, was never brought up during my experience there at all, and as I\u2019ve since learned, he has not been involved whatsoever in approximately 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYet Bush still defended the controversial conference along similar lines as Gordon-Levitt, saying it is important to hear other perspectives.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI did find the conference weekend valuable, in the same way I find it valuable to meet with and important to engage with people who see the world differently than I do in addition to the work I do alongside like-minded allies,\u201d she wrote. At the same time, \u201cI do wish I would have researched the event beforehand, but even if I had, I probably still would have gone because I firmly believe that having women standing up for women (and ringing alarm bells about our common and dangerous experiences with emerging technology) in rooms like these is of paramount importance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrolin previously responded to an inquiry about his involvement via a rep, who told THR that the No Country for Old Men actor would \u201clike to know what the fuck he got himself into.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe materials leaked to THR identify the set of session topics at this year\u2019s conference in Dublin. There is a heavy emphasis on geopolitics and technology topics. Several relate to divisive issues, like \u201cBring Back Nuclear,\u201d \u201cDisinformation & Deepfakes,\u201d \u201cBattlefield Technologies,\u201d \u201cDemocracy Under Surveillance,\u201d \u201cTaiwan and the AI Race\u201d and \u201cThree Predictions in Iran.\u201d They also reflected more individual-oriented topics, with \u201cHow\u2019s Your Sex Life,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Fun to Be in Charge,\u201d and \u201cResearch-Based Longevity Hacks\u201d sitting alongside some very dark themes, with topics including \u201cBuild-a-Cult\u201d and \u201cNavigating WWIII.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDialog also features an internal dating function, used to match members with each other, and offers discussions on book recommendations, technology\u2019s effect on humanity and the future, among other topics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n