Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species. Ad Policy Peter Thiel speaks at The Cambridge Union on May 8, 2024, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.(Nordin Catic / Getty Images ...

Peter Thiel hesitated when asked if he thinks the human race should survive. The question came up during the Interesting Times with Ross Douthat podcast, when the pair discussed AI.

Thiel: But I share your intuition because I think we’ve had a lot of smart people and things have been stuck for other reasons. And so maybe the problems are unsolvable, which is the pessimistic ...

But the back-and-forth between Thiel and Gawker started almost a decade ago. 2007 Gawker-owned site Valleywag publishes a report on Thiel's personal life titled, " Peter Thiel is totally gay, people." ...