Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president, has resigned from the board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in the wake of a firestorm over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers’ exit from the high-profile artificial intelligence firm came Wednesday, just two days after he announced he was stepping back from all public commitments following the release of thousands of his emails with the disgraced financier.

Larry Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI. AFP via Getty Images

Summers (left of Jeffrey Epstein) originally announced he was stepping back from all public commitments following the release of thousands of his emails with the disgraced financier.

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