Larry Summers leaving positions at Harvard and OpenAI after Epstein emails

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers stepped down from positions at Harvard University and the OpenAI board on Wednesday amid the continuing fallout from his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    Summers announced he was resigning from the board of OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, and a spokesman later said he would discontinue teaching roles at Harvard and go on leave as a director of a business and government school whileHarvard conducts a review of people named in the Epstein files.

    The former Treasury Secretary under former Democratic President Bill Clinton, Summers is among the highest-level U.S. personalities to pay a price for his relationship to Epstein, who was charged for sex trafficking before he died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.

Summers has been under fire since the U.S. House Oversight Committee released documents detailing an ongoing personal correspondence between Summers and Epstein.

The documents show that Summers continued to stay in touch with Epstein after his 2008 conviction, asking him at one point for relationship advice. No evidence has surfaced that he was involved in sex trafficking with Epstein.