AI Legislation

The bill would direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to conduct a study and hold public meetings with respect to AI systems. The study would concern accountability measures for AI systems. The public meetings would concern "the information that should be available to consumers who interact with artificial intelligence systems." These meetings would contribute to a report that would concern such information, and the methods to be used for making such information available to consumers.

The bill would require that all output generated by generative AI be accompanied by the following disclosure: "Disclaimer: this output has been generated by artificial intelligence." This requirement would be enforced by the FTC.

The bill would direct the Director of National Intelligence to establish a research program regarding "next-generation computing models, materials, devices, architectures, and algorithms to enable the advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning." The Director of National Intelligence would also be required to give a briefing to congressional intelligence committees a briefing "on whether intelligence community directives in effect as of the date such briefing is provided furnish intelligence community analysts with sufficient guidance and direction with respect to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in intelligence products produced by the intelligence community."

The bill would establish the "National AI Commission," an independent commission within the legislative branch tasked with recommending "any governmental structures that may be needed to oversee and regulate artificial intelligence systems" through a series of reports. The Commission would be bi-partisan and composed of representatives from government, industry, the computer science community, and civil society.

The bill would direct the Secretary of Labor and the Director of the National Science Foundation to, along with other relevant stakeholders, jointly prepare a report for relevant congressional committees on workforce training and development needs in light of recent advancements in AI. The report would include information on the sectors and demographics to be most impacted by the development of AI, the skills the workforce will need to develop in order to cope with AI's development over the next two decades, and recommendations to address projected workforce displacement, among other topics.

The bill would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the distribution, with actual malice, of certain political communications that contain materially deceptive audio generated by artificial intelligence which impersonate a candidate’s voice and are intended to injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive a voter into voting against the candidate.

The bill would establish certain requirements for online platforms utilizing algorithms for the purpose of content amplification, recommendation, or promotion. These include: transparency and record-keeping requirements regarding the data collection and processing practices underlying these algorithms, disclosure "in conspicuous, accessible, and plain language that is not misleading a complete description of the online platform's content moderation practices," and the publishing of annual transparency reports regarding content moderation practices. Online platforms would be prohibited from employing "an algorithmic process in a manner that is not safe and effective," or utilizing an algorithmic process to discriminate against a user. The bill would also establish an "Interagency Task Force on Algorithmic Processes on Online Platforms" that would "conduct a study on the discriminatory use of personal information by online platforms in algorithmic processes." This bill would be enforceable by the Federal Trade Commission, State Attorneys General, the Department of Justice, or a private right of action.

The bill would prohibit support for the remote use or cloud use of integrated circuits listed under Export Control Classification Number 3A090 and 4A090 of the Export Administration Regulations by entities located in the People’s Republic of China or Macau. Despite recent export controls on advanced semi conductors, "Chinese entities are still developing artificial intelligence tools and models by purchasing remote and cloud access to these same advanced components to train artificial intelligence models and tools." The bill would seek to close this loophole.

The bill would require the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response of the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct risk assessments and implement strategic initiatives or activities to address threats to public health and national security due to technical advancements in artificial intelligence or other emerging technology fields.

The bill would direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to establish a pilot program to explore the use of artificial intelligence in support of the mission of the Commission. During the pilot program, the CPSC would use AI for at least one of the four following purposes: (1) tracking trends with respect to injuries involving consumer products, (2) identifying consumer product hazards, (3) monitoring the retail marketplace for the sale of recalled consumer products, and (4) identifying consumer products to be refused admission into the customs territory of the United States as per the terms of the Consumer Product Safety Act. Following the conclusion of this pilot program, the CPSC would submit a report to relevant congressional committees regarding the outcome of the pilot program.

The bill would establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR), a body tasked with providing resources to support the innovation and development of trustworthy AI. The resources to be provided by the NAIRR include: (1) computational resources such as AI models, (2) data and curated datasets, (3) educational materials, (4) testbeds or platforms researchers can use to test their AI models. Under the terms of this bill, these resources would be available to any “researcher, educator, or student based in the United States that is affiliated with” an institution of higher education, a nonprofit institution, an executive agency, a federally funded research and development center, a small business concern, or any other entity approved by the Directors of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

This bill would require that certain entities deploying algorithms that have “legal, material, or similarly significant effect” relating to access or cost to certain essential services periodically release impact assessments of said algorithms. The bill would rely on the FTC for many aspects of its implementation and execution, including the design of reporting guidelines, the processing and publication of data from transparency reports, and enforcement.

This bill would establish the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Services Sector to report to Congress on issues related to artificial intelligence in the financial services sector. The Task Force would be chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury or a designee, and have as members, either directly or indirectly through an appointed designee: the Comptroller of Currency, the Chair of the Federal Reserve System, the Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, the Chair of the National Credit Union Administration, and the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

This bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish standards for making information about the training data and algorithms used in artificial intelligence foundation models publicly available. A violation of the requirements set down in this bill would be treated as a violation of the FTC's Section 5 prohibition on unfair or deceptive acts and practices.