Overview
- OpenAI said Wednesday that Summers decided to leave the board and thanked him for his contributions.
- Days earlier, both chambers of Congress voted to release Epstein files and a House panel published emails in which Summers sought advice about pursuing a woman he described as a mentee.
- The 2018–2019 messages show Summers acknowledging a power imbalance as Epstein encouraged him and wrote in June 2019, “She is doomed to be with you.”
- Summers said he is stepping away from public commitments as the controversy unfolds and he will remain a professor at Harvard.
- Harvard plans to open a review of Summers’s connections to Epstein, according to the Harvard Crimson.