# Washington policymakers already know Akash as DePIN-meets-AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-18
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "Greg Osuri \| Founder of Akash Network: Liberty, Community, and the Future of Decentralized AI" (Beacon Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:45:42 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greg-osuri-founder-of-akash-network-liberty/id1626302528?i=1000659451844
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-06-18-washington-policymakers-already-know-akash-as-depi-6evb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Washington policymakers already know Akash as DePIN-meets-AI," "Greg Osuri \| Founder of Akash Network: Liberty, Community, and the Future of Decentralized AI" (Beacon Podcast), 18 Jun 2024, 00:45:42. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greg-osuri-founder-of-akash-network-liberty/id1626302528?i=1000659451844

## Quote — verbatim

> I was on Capitol Hill earlier this week. I met with four senators, four congressmen on the AI caucus, and as well as the chair of the Financial Committee and the Commerce and Energy Committee... I was actually surprised that how many of them knew about \[Akash\]. One of the lead staffers of the Commerce Committee was like, yeah, \[Akash\] was like an intersection between \[DePIN\] and AI... We're talking about the people that write policy.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On how much policy/politics work Web3 founders must do (third of his three Web2-vs-Web3 founder differences); quote spans into the 00:46:22 block, where Whisper mishears "Akash" as "Apache" and "DePIN" as "deep end" (bracketed fixes). At 00:47:02 he adds he lobbies for decentralization "because the Sam Alphans [Altmans] of the world are going and debating that AI should be closed."