# OpenAI is lobbying to make open-source AI illegal

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-07-17
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Evolution to AGI Panel at Web3\_AI Day \| Encode Club \| Linera, Ritual, Nillion, Akash Network (Linera: Real-Time Blockchain)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:14 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfPrBtBiKA&t=434s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-07-17-openai-is-lobbying-to-make-open-source-ai-illegal-qb4s/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "OpenAI is lobbying to make open-source AI illegal," Evolution to AGI Panel at Web3\_AI Day \| Encode Club \| Linera, Ritual, Nillion, Akash Network (Linera: Real-Time Blockchain), 17 Jul 2024, 00:07:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfPrBtBiKA&t=434s

## Quote — verbatim

> I think he's just there to make money. I know this for sure because we do a lot of policy work in DC, and every time I go there, Sam Altman and the gang is trying to shut down open source and decentralized AI actively through lobbying, and they try to pass laws in the US to make open-source AI illegal, because they want to keep AI to themselves.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked whether Sam Altman is pushing the world toward destruction; Greg adds "they're winning in EU — they did win — and we are fighting very hard so that open source and decentralized AI is going to win in the US."