#MIT

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Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky was an MIT cognitive scientist who co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, took funding from Jeffrey Epstein, and was named in a 2019 unsealed deposition by Virginia Giuffre, an allegation his widow disputed.
Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky is the American linguist who met Jeffrey Epstein from 2015, had 270,000 dollars moved through Epstein's office, and received a 20,000 dollar check from him for designing a linguistics prize.
Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener was the American mathematician who founded cybernetics, the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine, building on his wartime work on automatic gun-aiming, and who warned that the automation it enabled could dehumanize labor.
Seth Lloyd MIT mechanical engineering professor and quantum computing theorist who took a personal gift and post-conviction donations from Jeffrey Epstein and was disciplined by MIT in 2020 for not disclosing Epstein's conviction.
Thomas Massie MIT-trained engineer and Republican congressman from Kentucky who forced the 2025 House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act and lost his 2026 primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger after record super PAC spending.

Goodwin Procter Boston law firm founded in 1912 whose January 2020 report for MIT documented ten Epstein donations totaling 850,000 dollars and found that MIT's senior team had approved post-conviction gifts.
MIT Media Lab Research laboratory at MIT co-founded by Nicholas Negroponte and directed by Joi Ito from 2011 to 2019, which took 525,000 dollars from Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction and recorded the gifts as anonymous.