"Silicon Valley Needs Art": Ashlee Vance Interviews Interintellect Founder Anna Gát
kyliebytes · x · 2026-09-24
Ashlee Vance's Core Memory podcast (EP 89) features Anna Gát, Hungarian philosopher, playwright, and founder of Interintellect, on the theme "Silicon Valley Needs Art."
Gát calls herself "the bridge" between the humanities, academia, and tech — in practice, getting engineers to read Goethe. She grew up on a TV set in communist Hungary, restarted her life in London in 2015 with two suitcases (one full of books), rebuilt her network on Twitter, and DM'd Sam Altman to land her first meeting on her first trip to America. Interintellect began in London in 2016 as an AI tool for helping humans have "categorically better conversations"; she also angel invests in aerospace.
Topics include: why X was once "the French café that could publish you" and now a place you can't get discovered from, why the East Coast's healthiest and wealthiest people are convinced the future is doomed, the duty AI builders have to explain themselves — plus her admission that she's a sucker for Elon Musk's syntax, and her pitch that Silicon Valley should fund symphonies.
Related event: Anna Gát Tells Ashlee Vance Silicon Valley Needs the Arts(2 posts)→
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