On Wednesday, Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and one of the world’s most famous economists, stepped down from the board of directors of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, and from all other public positions because of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious financier accused of sexual exploitation of dozens of underage girls, and who committed suicide in prison in 2019. Among the private emails from Epstein released last week by a US Congressional commission of inquiry, there were several emails containing Summers, proving a close relationship between the two. Summers said he stepped down from his duties after the revelations to “rebuild trust and repair relationships with those closest to me.”
Among other things, Summers is also a professor at Harvard, the most prestigious university in the United States (and he was also its president from 2001 to 2006). A Harvard spokesperson said Wednesday that the university would conduct an investigation into its employees named in Epstein’s letter, without explicitly naming Summers.
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