Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Wednesday announced that he will resign from the board of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI days after he said he that he would be stepping back from “all public commitments".

The resignation comes following the public release of emails revealing his correspondence with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“I am grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company, and look forward to following their progress," Summers said in a statement to CNBC .

The emails between Summers and Epstein were made public last week after the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released over 20,000 documents obtained from Epstein’s estate.

The correspondence revealed that Summers had main

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