# US legislators agree: open, decentralized AI is better for America

- **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:** 00:07:57 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfPrBtBiKA&t=477s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-07-17-us-legislators-agree-open-decentralized-ai-is-bett-cqhb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "US legislators agree: open, decentralized AI is better for America," Evolution to AGI Panel at Web3\_AI Day \| Encode Club \| Linera, Ritual, Nillion, Akash Network (Linera: Real-Time Blockchain), 17 Jul 2024, 00:07:57. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfPrBtBiKA&t=477s

## Quote — verbatim

> Most of the legislators and the staffers we speak to, all of them agree that AI being open and decentralized is better for America and the rest of the world, and unless there's concrete damage that's going to happen, they're not going to write rules.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His read on US AI policy circa mid-2024; dismisses the "China will steal AI" argument as "the same argument as with guns."