Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he said on Wednesday, several days after Congress released documents that showed Summers shared a close relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers, also a former president of Harvard University, said on Monday he would step back from all public commitments, adding that the move was to allow him “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”

Summers has been under fire after the U.S. House Oversight Committee released documents detailing an ongoing correspondence between Summers and Epstein. Harvard University, where Summers is still a professor, will open a new probe into individuals included in the Epstein emails, a university spokesperson said on

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