The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
November 20, 2025

Larry Summers Quits OpenAI Board and Harvard Teaching Role Amid Epstein Revelations 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Former Harvard president and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers
announced that he's stepping down from commitments at Harvard and from
the board of Open AI after documents showed that he continued to stay in
touch with Jeffrey Epstein long after Epstein's 2008 sex trafficking
conviction. Emails show Summers called Epstein his "wing man" and asked
for advice on pursuing a sexual relationship with a much younger woman
he called his "mentee." Harvard has opened an investigation into
Summers's actions.


.