# Remove export controls; state intervention backfires

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-01-31
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI \| Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund)
- **Watch at:** 00:46:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-XhauNLNE&t=2782s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2025-01-31-remove-export-controls-state-intervention-backfire-krme/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Remove export controls; state intervention backfires," DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI \| Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund), 31 Jan 2025, 00:46:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-XhauNLNE&t=2782s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's no stopping of this technology, this is unstoppable... \[The US\] has to move out of people's way... and remove all the export controls... if we didn't have export controls, DeepSeek wouldn't exist.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked what role government should play; later ([00:49:14]) he cites post-Civil War railroad subsidies as the template for state intervention going wrong and says the big ($500B-style) investment plans are "just going to backfire."