Mr. Summers’ departure from the artificial intelligence company’s board followed revelations of his communications with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Larry Summers quit his role at OpenAI after it emerged he had maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein even after the billionaire was convicted of child sex offences in 2008

The Harvard Crimson, which first uncovered the emails, reports that the class is an elective for undergraduates, “The Political Economy of Globalization.” Summers was previously president of Harvard, Treasury secretary in the final years of the Clinton administration, and a top adviser to Barack Obama during the Great Recession.

The university is reviewing newly released emails between the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, and others at the institution.

She’s already begining to sound needy :) nice,” Epstein told Summers after being forwarded an email from one female correspondent.