Welcome! I’m Anna Gát, Founder-CEO and Editor in Chief of Interintellect. This is my personal website. You can also follow me on X…

I’m building Interintellect, a new public square worthy of the intelligence and benevolence of its participants. I’m a writer and technologist originally from Budapest where I was a bookworm, a Girl Scout, a war history buff, a hobby theologian, and a competitive rhythmic gymnast. I spent part of my high school years in France. I hold two master’s degrees from ELTE in Budapest, and a third from Goldsmiths College in London. I am by training a philosopher of art, dramaturg, and linguist. I’m currently based in New York City.

I’ve worked since I was a teenager: as a writer and journalist, editor and translator, screenwriter and playwright. My first volume of poetry was published when I was 19. I wrote lyrics for and then managed underground bands in Budapest. I was nominated for European awards for the movies I wrote, and in 2012 got into Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Script Station program. It was around this time that, working on a series of sci-fi projects, I realized that I was more interested in the sci than the fi: in technology — building a better future, not just using or describing it — and I decided to dedicate myself to this mission fully.

In 2013, I co-founded Hungary’s leading women’s rights platform for which I won a Glamour Woman of the Year award. I emigrated to London that same year on a scholarship from Goldsmiths.

The first incarnation of Interintellect started in London in 2016 when I invented an AI-mediated chat app for conflict management. Since 2019, when it changed into its current format of depolarized conversation platform, Interintellect has been making history through its signature online and offline salons. Nurturing the up and coming thinkers of the world, we also welcome some of the leading voices of business, science, the humanities, and the arts: Daron Acemoglu, Anne Applebaum, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, Esther Perel, Tyler Cowen, Cass Sunstein, Kevin Kelly, Deirdre McCloskey, Agnes Callard, James Clear, Kyla Scanlon, Jason Stanley, Samuel Moyn, Taylor Lorenz, Peter Thiel, Merve Emre, Balaji Srinivasan, Mark Lilla, Dan Wang, Elizabeth Bruenig, Erik Brynjolfsson, Jimmy Wales, John Ganz, Shadi Hamid, Anil Seth, Gary Marcus, Peter Turchin, Isabelle Boemeke, Coleman Hughes, Katie Herzog, Renee DiResta, Virginia Postrel, Phil Klay have been listed on Interintellect, among many others. And this is just the beginning…

I’m an Emergent Ventures grant winner. Interintellect’s investors include Bloomberg Beta, Draper Associates, O’Shaughnessy Ventures, Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, EF and ARIA co-founder Matt Clifford, Kabam co-founder Holly Liu, Modulos AI founder Kevin Schawinski, Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia, Terraformation founder Yishan Wong, as well as Packy McCormick, Sari Azout, and Balaji Srinivasan.

My personal blog is called American Innocence (where I formerly wrote ‘Eleven Sentence Essays’). My personal podcast is called The Hope Axis. My angel investment portfolio includes Substack, aerospace companies Airbound, Astro Mechanica, and Airship Industries, and more. As a philanthropist, my latest donation went to Women’s Health Fund that develops artificial wombs. For women and new immigrants to the USA, I offer free mentoring calls.