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1 A 3 O R N challenges the notion that AI safety organizations are not trying to ban open-source AI. The author provides several examples of well-funded and influential organizations that have proposed policies that would effectively ban or limit the use and distribution of currently existing open-source AI models. These organizations include the Center for AI Safety, the Center for AI Policy, Palisade Research, and the Future Society. The author argues that these proposals would substantially contribute to a corporate monopoly on large language models (LLMs) and prevent human use of and research into an easily-steerable and deeply non-rebellious form of intelligence. They urge the open-source AI movement to get its legislative act together if it is to avoid being obliterated by the 'anti-open source' movement.