Anna Gát is a writer and technologist, and the founder and CEO of Interintellect, a global intellectual salon platform.

Interintellect is a cultural technology startup that brings together two decades of work in philosophy, linguistic research, institution-building, and film and theater writing. Creating new conversation formats in an interactive way every day, we enable people to reinvent culture and redefine human thinking for the AI era.

Interintellect’s story started in London in 2016 when I invented an AI-driven communication tool to help humans have categorically better conversations with each other. My original dramatic, linguistic, and technical research grew into Interintellect — a cultural institution operating since 2019 — and its signature discussion methodology.

Gathering the world’s best emerging thinkers and world-builders, Interintellect has also welcomed leading figures in business, science, the humanities, and the arts: you might have conversed with Daron Acemoglu, Anne Applebaum, Francis Fukuyama, Lea Ypi, Steven Pinker, Esther Perel, Tyler Cowen, Ada Palmer, Cass Sunstein, Kevin Kelly, Deirdre McCloskey, Agnes Callard, James Clear, Kyla Scanlon, Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan, Merve Emre, Erik Brynjolfsson, Taylor Lorenz, Jimmy Wales, Peter Turchin or Coleman Hughes at one of our salons.

We partner with Penguin Random House, the Templeton Foundation, the Long Now Foundation, the French Embassy in the USA and other great organizations for our salon series and festivals. Interintellect’s investors include Bloomberg Beta, Draper Associates, ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, OSV, Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, Anthropic managing director Matthew Clifford, Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia, Terraformation founder and ex-Reddit CEO Yishan Wong; Packy McCormick, Sari Azout, and Balaji Srinivasan.

My personal blog is called American Innocence. I write about language, society, artificial intelligence, and my new home America. I am interested in minds, behavior, communion — conflict, social contracts, desires, and love. I am drawn to things that are not supposed to work but somehow do. I think friendship saves humanity. I think conversation saves the world. I think collective good starts with strong people doing bold, unexpected things.

My podcast is called The Hope Axis. My angel investments include Substack, aerospace companies Airbound, Astro Mechanica, and Airship Industries, and more. I serve on the board of The New School’s new, heterodox Center for the American Experience. For women and new immigrants to the USA, I offer free mentoring calls. Find me on X or, if you must, LinkedIn.

I hold postgraduate degrees from ELTE (Budapest) in philosophical aesthetics and linguistics, and a third one in dramaturgy from Goldsmiths College (London). I currently divide my time between New York City and San Francisco.