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Former US treasury secretary the Harvard professor is leaving the board at the ChatGPT creator, just a week after a batch of digital correspondence between him and late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became widely known.

Summers stated in an announcement that he was "grateful for the chance to have served, enthusiastic about the promise of the organization, and eagerly await following their progress".

The prominent academic, who once led the Ivy League institution, announced on recently that he would be scaling back from public responsibilities due to his relationship with the convicted sex offender.

Message Exchange

The newly public emails demonstrated that the official exchanged messages with Epstein until the day before his 2019 apprehension for alleged trafficking of minors.

In additional comments, the technology organization said it accepted Summers' determination to depart.

"We value his many contributions and the perspective he provided to the Board," the company remarked.

Congressional Action

This development comes after the entire Congress of the US legislature voted on recently to endorse a measure that would compel the Department of Justice to release its records on Jeffrey Epstein.

The bill will afterward proceed to the administration of the White House for signature. The President has said he plans to approve the bill, after changing his position on the issue following objections from his base.

Email Contents

A batch of financier-linked messages made public by the legislative panel recently referenced multiple well-known personalities in the financier's past associates, without implying any illegal behavior by those individuals.

The messages indicated that the economist and Epstein dined together frequently, with he often attempting to introduce the academic to prominent international personalities.

Personal Response

After the emails were made available with the public, Summers expressed he accepted "complete accountability for my ill-advised choice to maintain corresponding with Jeffrey Epstein".

He added that he desired "to reestablish trust and fix relationships with the people closest to me".

Professional History

The professor served in high-level positions under party leaders; functioning as economic leader under the former president, and as head of the National Economic Council under the former leader.

He led the university from the early 2000s and continues to be a academic there. When stating his withdrawal from public roles recently on this week, he stated he would persist with his educational duties.

Further Repercussions

Following Summers' statement on Monday, the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy institute in the capital where the professor was a researcher, announced that the economist was no longer connected with the organization.

The former official entered the leadership of the AI company, which creates ChatGPT, in the previous year - following a unsuccessful effort to remove its chief executive the company leader.