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Former US treasury secretary the Harvard professor is departing from the governing body at the artificial intelligence firm, just a week after a collection of electronic messages between him and deceased financier the accused trafficker became publicly available.

Summers commented in a release that he was "appreciative for the chance to have served, enthusiastic about the promise of the enterprise, and eagerly await observing their advancement".

The former Harvard president, who previously presided over the Ivy League institution, announced on earlier this week that he would be withdrawing from public roles due to his connections with Epstein.

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The newly public communications revealed that Summers exchanged messages with the financier until the eve of the financier's 2019 apprehension for alleged human trafficking of young people.

In a separate statement, the AI firm stated it respected his decision to step down.

"We appreciate his numerous inputs and the perspective he brought to the governing body," the organization remarked.

Political Context

This development follows after the entire Congress of the US legislature voted on Tuesday to approve a legislation that would require the Department of Justice to disclose its records on Epstein.

The legislation will afterward move to the desk of US President Donald Trump for signature. He has said he plans to sign the measure, after reversing his position on the issue following pressure from his followers.

Correspondence Findings

A group of financier-linked emails made public by the legislative panel recently referenced several well-known personalities in the billionaire's former circle, without implying any illegal behavior by those figures.

The communications showed that the economist and Jeffrey Epstein dined together frequently, with the billionaire often trying to connect Summers to notable world leaders.

Personal Response

After the messages were made available with the public, the former official expressed he assumed "total ownership for my ill-advised choice to maintain interacting with Mr Epstein".

He added that he wanted "to reestablish trust and repair connections with the people most important to me".

Previous Positions

The professor held high-level positions under Democratic administrations; acting as Treasury chief under Bill Clinton, and as leader of the National Economic Council under the former leader.

He headed the institution from five years and remains a faculty member there. When stating his step-down from public duties recently on this week, he said he would persist with his academic responsibilities.

Additional Consequences

Following the economist's declaration on Monday, the policy organization, a progressive think tank in the capital where he was a senior fellow, announced that the economist was not connected with the group.

He entered the directorate of the AI company, which creates the AI chatbot, in the previous year - following a unsuccessful effort to replace its chief executive OpenAI's head.