# Forces on Capitol Hill are fighting to keep AI closed source

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-26
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri - Akash: Decentralized Compute Marketplace - ep 158 (Zima Red)
- **Watch at:** 00:59:39 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKZIY2aBe0&t=3579s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-11-26-forces-on-capitol-hill-are-fighting-to-keep-ai-clo-2hit/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Forces on Capitol Hill are fighting to keep AI closed source," Greg Osuri - Akash: Decentralized Compute Marketplace - ep 158 (Zima Red), 26 Nov 2024, 00:59:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKZIY2aBe0&t=3579s

## Quote — verbatim

> As you spend time on the Capitol Hill, you realize the forces that want to keep AI closed source are very, very active, working very hard to keep AI closed source, and they have incentive to do so.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Listing regulatory risk as Akash's biggest systemic risk; he adds legislators seem unwilling to legislate absent concrete AI harm, framing generative-AI bans as a free-speech problem.