Ann Rose
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![All Text - The 19th dives further into Epstein and his associates' misogynistic views, as the newest tranche of files contains several claims that women are less intelligent than men. In one email from 2018, Epstein responds to an invite to the "Brockman Conference" on AI, inspired by "the highly influential Macy Conferences of the 1940s and 1950s," and connected to the book POSSIBLE MINDS: 25 WAYS OF LOOKING AT AI that Brockman edited. The conference and book included scholars Alison Gopnik and Caroline Jones:
"the old conferencess did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either. the women are all weak , and a distraction sorry, [sic]," Epstein wrote.
Brockman replied with a defense of the women. "Great minds can disagree," he writes. "The world has changed. This conference is based on a book. Today, it's impossible to get a publisher to buy such a book with essays by 25 men and no women."
Brockman ends his email: "Given your response, I don't feel comfortable moving ahead as planned, taking funding or having you in attendance. And the latter is a serious risk. Today's news on Lawrence [Krauss] shows that Me-Too is not going away; it's growing, it's all-pervasive and we're now in a McCarthy-ism moment on steroids.
"This is all very depressing to me when I should be celebrating a fantastic project. The depressing part is that since we've met you've been my most dependable friend, and ally, the person I know I can always call and talk to and, more importantly, who picks up the phone and calls me and says 'how are you?'"
Epstein ultimately responded that he would fund the conference but not attend. Still, Epstein's sidelining of women, as highlighted in the newest batch of emails, may have had a dark influence on science and academia in the US.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ur75hsiorr4s6l6bxqsnssej/bafkreibebyobfo3xk4ll6u3oxbj6h7welefk4j64nmjqsphsyklwc2aymu)
