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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released an extensive cache of emails with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which included details of intimate affairs.

Summers is also a former president of Harvard University and a current professor. The university will open its own probe into Summers’s connections with Epstein, reports the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. The university newspaper also reported that Summers will step back from public commitments.

His departure comes a day after both the House and the Senate voted to release the Epstein files. Over the past few days, a House panel released years of email exchanges between Epstein and Summers, including one in which Summers asked for advice about pursuing a relationship with a woman he described as a mentee.

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[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's such a weird place to be to feel that this guy is absolute trash, but also kind of heartened that he can still apparently feel shame about being absolute trash.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, he probably jumped the gun. If he waited a week we'll all be distracted by war in Taiwan or the AI bubble popping or an attack on a Fox News host. At least, those are the things on my bingo card for 2025.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

Thank goodness, OpenAI will now have a morally well-anchored Board of Directors as it becomes unrepentantly for-profit

/s

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Love it. Take all these ghouls down.