You mean exactly like these pro-regulation organizations are doing?

These pro-regulation orgs are lobbying/bribbing for new regulations... Not sure what you mean

> Many AI safety orgs have tried to __criminalize__ currently-existing open-source AI

standard socialist play to use the government's hand to achieve their own objectives

Don't everybody use the government to do what they want? It's kind of the definition of government, in any country and in any political system.

Mostly the people with the money do

The people in the government do it. Of course they could be proxies for people with the money but sometimes they do it for free because it's what they promised, what they believe into and what they need to win the next election (if they live in a country with elections.)