Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after release of emails with Epstein
Source: CNBC
Published Wed, Nov 19 2025 7:10 AM EST Updated 4 Min Ago
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Wednesday that he will resign from the board at OpenAI after the release of emails between him and the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Summers had announced Monday that he would be stepping back from all public commitments, but it was not immediately clear whether that included his position at the artificial intelligence startup.
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.
OpenAIs board told CNBC it respects Summers decision to resign. We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brought to the Board, the OpenAI Board of Directors said in a statement.
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rampartd
(3,105 posts)but good for summers for doing the right thing.
now get him in a committee under oath.
marble falls
(69,489 posts)thesquanderer
(12,851 posts)I remember when some here were up in arms about his being part of the Obama administration.
Farmer-Rick
(12,308 posts)He's a "free" trader. He made the gathering of wealth by the elite, already filthy-rich, much easier for them and much, much more difficult for the rest of us. Obama was wrong to have appointed him.
Pototan
(2,925 posts)when he was shitting all over Biden for 3 years.
Fuck him.
Prairie Gates
(6,862 posts)This fucking guy isn't rich enough to just go away?
Bluetus
(1,938 posts)Birds of a feather.
jfz9580m
(16,158 posts)Nothing like a clean conscience Larry..you should try it
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I hope he is miserable. He was always an asshole.
I try to remind myself when dealing with the various vicissitudes of life that a clean conscience is one thing most of us rabble have going for us. Even adjacency to our elites seems mildly corrupting.
IronLionZion
(50,390 posts)if any dude was clearly a member of the wrong political party, it's Larry Summers.
I've been saying this for years. There are many reasons he was denied a role in the Biden administration.
dedl67
(124 posts)That's a dumb statement for anyone to make, let alone a president of a university. I think that was one reason that Harvard booted him.
Auggie
(32,725 posts)fujiyamasan
(1,001 posts)I want to see Epstein destroying these elite fuckers. He was close to several Ivy League professors.
Envirogal
(260 posts)Summers is a key architect of the banking deregulation in the late 90s. He is a women-hating misogynist and an economic policy fool. I was so pissed when Obama appointed him Treasury Sec. and was a key advisor during his campaign. Fool us once, shame on us.
When the Winklevoss Brothers issued a complaint at Harvard that Zuckerberg stole their idea, it was Summers that shut it down. (Rewatch The Social Network movie for the scene.)
Jon Stewart put that idiot creep in his place during his Apple TV show and Summers couldnt argue his way out of a paper bag to defend his policy advocacy. Seeing the poorly written communications only confirm what the man lacks in intelligence is made up in arrogance.
Its time we quit insulating old man incompetence just because they are in the club. Now that we also know what the extracurricular activities of certain club members entailed.
yardwork
(68,598 posts)Marie Marie
(10,745 posts)But, IF he was involved in anything nefarious with these young victims, then he should be prosecuted. You don't get to just "lay low" till this blows over.