# Washington consensus: low-touch AI policy unless open source causes concrete damage

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-02
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** "Will demand for advanced AI chips (GPUs) be 1:1 for every person? We sit down with Greg Osuri to find out." (Block Fuel)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:43 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-demand-for-advanced-ai-chips-gpus-be-1-1-for-every/id1705468368?i=1000671509211
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-10-02-washington-consensus-low-touch-ai-policy-unless-op-tra3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Washington consensus: low-touch AI policy unless open source causes concrete damage," "Will demand for advanced AI chips (GPUs) be 1:1 for every person? We sit down with Greg Osuri to find out." (Block Fuel), 2 Oct 2024, 00:15:43. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-demand-for-advanced-ai-chips-gpus-be-1-1-for-every/id1705468368?i=1000671509211

## Quote — verbatim

> The general consensus we spoke, for most sides of the party, both Democrats and Republicans, is that AI, when it's open, when it's more accessible, benefits most Americans and the world as a result, versus being guarded by the few... unless there is concrete damage in terms of open-source AI that we can look at, we're not going to get regulated.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Reporting from his meetings with the House Commerce Committee's AI action group (quote spans into the 00:16:24-00:17:05 blocks), whose staff recognized Akash as "at the intersection between AI and [DePIN]."