From the Daily Caller: A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab previously funded in part by Jeffrey Epstein hosted a panel where attendees openly discussed the idea of using “child-size sex robots” to treat pedophiles.
The MIT Media Lab’s July 2016 conference on research questions without “social and moral constraints” included a panel discussion arguing that pedophilia should not be seen as a “moral failing” but rather a medical condition and that the development of “child-size sex robots” is an inevitability, a transcript and video of the event shows.
The Media Lab’s ties to the disgraced financier span a 17-year period in which the lab readily accepted Epstein’s cash donations and facilitated introductions with its scientists on-campus and off, according to a 2020 fact-finding report commissioned by the university. The lab’s director contemplated inviting Epstein to one of its conferences in July 2016, the report states, the same month of the conference where the child-size sex robots were proposed, the only conference the lab hosted that month, according to its website.
“Once child-size sex robots hit the market, which they will, is the use of these robots going to be a healthy outlet for people to express these sexual urges and thus protect children and reduce child abuse? Or is the use of these robots going to encourage, normalize, propagate that behavior?” said one panelist. “We can’t research it [because of reporting restrictions]. But I do wonder whether they’re doing more harm than good in these cases. Because as much as people want these sexual urges — the urges, not the act — to be a moral failing, they are a psychological issue.”
In a post on X, Daily Caller reporter Emily Kopp wrote:
The Epstein-tied MIT Media Lab hosted a discussion on supplying pedophiles with “child-sized sex robots” at conference on research without “moral boundaries,” saying such urges are not a “moral failing.”
Previously unreported evidence indicates Epstein was directly involved. Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman was consulted about inviting Epstein to attend.
Epstein had ties to the MIT Media Lab for many years. But like many of Epstein’s connections to academia, Wall Street & government, they have never been fully unspooled. 🧵
Epstein was a donor and alleged connection for the MIT Media Lab to Bill Gates and Leon Black. A little noticed footnote in MIT’s report about Epstein shows that MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito asked Hoffman about inviting the pedophile to a conference he was involved with in July 2016.
The conference where “child-sized sex robots” were proposed occurred in July 2016, the only conference the lab hosted that month, according to the university’s website.
Epstein was a donor and alleged connection for the MIT Media Lab to Bill Gates and Leon Black. A little noticed footnote in MIT’s report about Epstein shows that MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito asked Hoffman about inviting the pedophile to a conference he was involved with in July… pic.twitter.com/cyzqoF43TJ
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) July 16, 2025
This conference “without moral boundaries” including “child-sized sex robots” sparked the idea of an MIT “Disobedience Award”: A glowing orb. Epstein himself received one of these orbs.
Earlier this week Tucker Carlson criticized Bill Ackman.
Ackman’s wife designed the orbs and helped supply one to Epstein.
This is just one window into all of the unresolved questions about Epstein’s ties to elite intuitions.
This is just one window into all of the unresolved questions about Epstein’s ties to elite intuitions.
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) July 16, 2025
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