San Francisco AI exec had kids' private school tuition paid for by Jeffrey Epstein

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Jeffrey Epstein funded the household costs of a now-prominent San Francisco artificial intelligence researcher, according to a newly released tranche of the disgraced financier’s files. The scientist, Joscha Bach, took tens of thousands of dollars from Epstein, going beyond research funding to accept money for flights, rent and his children’s tuition at a private school in Menlo Park.

Bach is a German academic who has long specialized in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He currently runs the California Institute for Machine Consciousness as its executive director, and his recent podcast appearances have racked up millions of listens. Epstein met Bach through other AI and psychology researchers and decided to finance his research beginning in 2013, supporting Bach’s work at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.


Though Epstein had been convicted of soliciting a child for prostitution in 2008, he remained close with titans of finance, tech and academia for years until his 2019 arrest on sex trafficking charges. Bach — for whom there are no allegations of sexual impropriety — told SFGATE on Tuesday that MIT had approved Epstein’s funding and that many renowned scientists maintained relationships with him. He added: “The prevailing view was that Epstein, having served his sentence, was complying with the law.”

Bach did not receive support from Epstein after his July 2019 arrest, he wrote. He emphasized that he hadn’t known about any allegations of sex trafficking by the financier during their span of correspondence: “To be clear: I have never been aware of any crimes of Epstein after his [2008] conviction, or observed him to engage in any illicit behavior, and the accusations after his second arrest came as a shock.”

Bach said, “Between 2013 and 2019, Epstein covered our living costs — relocation, rent, medical expenses, school fees, the salary gap, and conference travel.”