Larry Summers, who ran the US Treasury under ex-president Bill Clinton, had already stepped back from public commitments and quit the OpenAI foundation board after Congress released emails linking him to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Last year, Summers expressed "regret" over his links with Epstein, while addressing Harvard students.

Larry Summers, the former U.S. Treasury secretary who has been dogged by his past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, will resign from teaching at Harvard University by the end of…