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### Epstein Interests and the Hong Kong Project
The 2010 tax return of Epstein Interests recorded a 20,000 dollar payment to the association, made two years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea in [[Florida]].[^3] Epstein Interests was one of the Epstein entities to which the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]] issued grand jury subpoenas on May 31, 2007, alongside the [[Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation|J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation]], J. Epstein & Company and [[Financial Trust Company]].[^6]
The 2010 tax return of Epstein Interests recorded a 20,000 dollar payment to the association, made two years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea in [[Florida]].[^3] The wire instruction, a memorandum on Epstein Interests letterhead addressed "To: Janet, JP Morgan" and "From: Jeffrey Epstein," dated September 13, 2010, read: "Please transfer TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000) from the above account to: Bank: Wells Fargo Bank ... For Credit to: World Transhumanist Association Inc." [[JPMorgan Chase]] received it by fax on September 14, 2010 as page 15 of a 15-page transmission. The other fourteen pages were memoranda on Jeffrey E. Epstein letterhead from his accountant [[Harry Beller]], among them wires of 100,000 dollars to a FirstBank account in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] for LSJ, LLC of Red Hook Quarters, [[St. Thomas]], 250,000 dollars to the account of "DARREN K INDYKE PLLC," the practice of his lawyer [[Darren Indyke]], with the instruction "Please email Richard Kahn with the Federal reference number," and 250,000 dollars to [[HBRK Associates]], the firm of his accountant [[Richard Kahn]]; most of the rest were payments to engineering, construction, landscaping and supply companies.[^6] Epstein Interests was one of the Epstein entities to which the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]] issued grand jury subpoenas on May 31, 2007, alongside the [[Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation|J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation]], J. Epstein & Company and [[Financial Trust Company]].[^7]
In October 2010 [[OpenCog]], the open-source artificial general intelligence project of [[Ben Goertzel]], announced a two-year project at the M-Lab of [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] to build intelligent video game characters, with 380,000 dollars in funding, "the majority of which is supplied by ITF, with a minority supplied by [[Novamente]] in collaboration with Epstein Interests and Humanity+." The project was to be led by the M-Lab faculty members [[Gino Yu]] and [[Wilson Yuen]], with Goertzel overseeing its artificial intelligence work, and to draw graduate students from [[Xiamen University]] in China, where Goertzel was co-supervising an OpenCog robotics project. The announcement described the goal as a "Sputnik of AGI."[^7] [[Natasha Vita-More]], executive director of Humanity+, told BuzzFeed News in 2019 that the Epstein money "was used for AI research" and that "When Mr. Epstein did make a donation to Humanity+, it was long before any news broke about his unethical behavior"; Goertzel was then a director of Humanity+.[^3] In 2009 Epstein's C.O.U.Q. Foundation gave 50,000 dollars to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, now the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute]].[^3]
In October 2010 [[OpenCog]], the open-source artificial general intelligence project of [[Ben Goertzel]], announced a two-year project at the M-Lab of [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] to build intelligent video game characters, with 380,000 dollars in funding, "the majority of which is supplied by ITF, with a minority supplied by [[Novamente]] in collaboration with Epstein Interests and Humanity+." The project was to be led by the M-Lab faculty members [[Gino Yu]] and [[Wilson Yuen]], with Goertzel overseeing its artificial intelligence work, and to draw graduate students from [[Xiamen University]] in China, where Goertzel was co-supervising an OpenCog robotics project. The announcement described the goal as a "Sputnik of AGI."[^8] [[Natasha Vita-More]], executive director of Humanity+, told BuzzFeed News in 2019 that the Epstein money "was used for AI research" and that "When Mr. Epstein did make a donation to Humanity+, it was long before any news broke about his unethical behavior"; Goertzel was then a director of Humanity+.[^3] In 2009 Epstein's C.O.U.Q. Foundation gave 50,000 dollars to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, now the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute]].[^3]
### The Enhanced Payments
On August 14, 2016 the German artificial intelligence researcher [[Joscha Bach]] wrote to Epstein under the subject "Company": "What is the current idea re: my formal employer in the US? Does it make sense to frame it as a startup, put me into an existing non-profit (Ben Goertzel has 'Humanity Plus', which does non profit AGI research and is a Delaware company), or did anything come out of Joi's existing MIT affiliated companies?" The reference is to [[Joi Ito]], director of the [[MIT Media Lab]].[^9]
On January 14, 2018 Bach wrote to Epstein, "Could you please help with money? I should have talked to you earlier about it but the needle is indeed on empty"; Epstein forwarded the message to Kahn with the word "yes." On January 16 Kahn asked Epstein to "please advise on amount to send Joscha and from which entity" and set out the "history" of the payments. It recorded 50,000 dollars "Enhanced to Joscha" in January 2016, 157,500 dollars "Enhanced Humanity Plus" in September 2016, 115,000 dollars "Enhanced to Humanity Plus" in 2017, three further payments of 25,000, 20,000 and 10,000 dollars "Enhanced to Joscha" between 2016 and June 2017, and two sums of 16,850 and 14,280 dollars for "tuition - JEE." The payments to Humanity Plus in the list total 272,500 dollars and those to Bach 105,000 dollars. Epstein answered "125 k." On January 17, 2018 Kahn wrote back: "125 from enhanced to humanity plus or joscha. Please advise."[^10][^11] The entity called Enhanced is not otherwise identified in the correspondence.
### The Gratitude America Gift
In a statement issued in August 2019 Humanity+ said that "Gratitude America, Ltd. made a donation to Humanity+ in 2018" of 100,000 dollars that "did not include Mr. Jeffrey Epstein's name," and that its Schedule B stated the money "was granted to educational research and development of Artificial Intelligence, the ethical use of AI, and increasing awareness of how AI can benefit humanity." It stated that it "had no knowledge of Mr. Epstein's horrific alleged criminal activity, and we strongly condemn it," that "Epstein was never a member of Humanity+, nor affiliated with any known transhumanist organization," and that "Epstein's egocentric ideas about eugenics ardently conflict with the philosophy of transhumanism." The *[[The New York Times|New York Times]]* had reported in July 2019 that Epstein told scientists of plans to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his [[Zorro Ranch]] in [[New Mexico]].[^4][^8]
In a statement issued in August 2019 Humanity+ said that "Gratitude America, Ltd. made a donation to Humanity+ in 2018" of 100,000 dollars that "did not include Mr. Jeffrey Epstein's name," and that its Schedule B stated the money "was granted to educational research and development of Artificial Intelligence, the ethical use of AI, and increasing awareness of how AI can benefit humanity." It stated that it "had no knowledge of Mr. Epstein's horrific alleged criminal activity, and we strongly condemn it," that "Epstein was never a member of Humanity+, nor affiliated with any known transhumanist organization," and that "Epstein's egocentric ideas about eugenics ardently conflict with the philosophy of transhumanism." The *[[The New York Times|New York Times]]* had reported in July 2019 that Epstein told scientists of plans to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his [[Zorro Ranch]] in [[New Mexico]].[^4][^12]
### Footnotes
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[^3]: Aldhous, Peter. "Jeffrey Epstein's Links To Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought," *BuzzFeed News,* August 27, 2019 (citing the 2010 Form 990 of Epstein Interests, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6188966-Epstein-Interests-2010-990.html). https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-science-donations-apologies-statements
[^4]: Humanity+, "Humanity+ Clarification of Epstein Donation," August 4, 2019, archived December 24, 2020, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20201224085040/https://humanityplus.org/humanity-clarification-of-epstein-donation/
[^5]: Humanity+, "About," archived January 16, 2013, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20130116101752/http://humanityplus.org/about/
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), entry for May 31, 2007. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
[^7]: OpenCog, "OpenCog-based game characters at Hong Kong Poly U," October 2010, archived January 22, 2021, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122170135/https://opencog.org/2010/10/opencog-based-game-characters-at-hong-kong-poly-u/
[^8]: Stewart, James B., Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. "Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA." *New York Times,* July 31, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01589498 to EFTA01589515, DataSet 10, wire transfer memoranda faxed to JPMorgan Chase, September 13 and 14, 2010, 15 pages, with the Epstein Interests memorandum for the World Transhumanist Association at EFTA01589514 (JPM-SDNY Bates range; duplicate copy of the final page at EFTA01583862). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01589498.pdf
[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), entry for May 31, 2007. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
[^8]: OpenCog, "OpenCog-based game characters at Hong Kong Poly U," October 2010, archived January 22, 2021, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122170135/https://opencog.org/2010/10/opencog-based-game-characters-at-hong-kong-poly-u/
[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00821389, DataSet 9, email from Joscha Bach to Jeffrey Epstein, "Company," August 14, 2016. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00821389.pdf
[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00911083, DataSet 9, email from Richard Kahn to Jeffrey Epstein, "Joscha Bach," January 16, 2018, forwarding email from Joscha Bach, January 14, 2018. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00911083.pdf
[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA02537093, DataSet 11, email chain between Richard Kahn and Jeffrey Epstein, "Re: Joscha Bach," January 16 to 17, 2018. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02537093.pdf
[^12]: Stewart, James B., Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. "Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA." *New York Times,* July 31, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html