[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5532 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5532

    To authorize the Director of the National Science Foundation to 
establish prize competitions related to deep fake detection technology.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2019

  Ms. Wexton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Director of the National Science Foundation to 
establish prize competitions related to deep fake detection technology.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Deep Fake Detection Prize 
Competition Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Prize competitions have been used throughout America's 
        history, dating back to the designing of the United States 
        Capitol Building in 1792.
            (2) The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act granted 
        authority for Federal agencies to carry out prize competitions 
        in order to stimulate innovation to advance each agency's 
        mission.
            (3) Prize competitions provide a benefit to the American 
        people by providing a high reward return on taxpayer dollars.
            (4) Since 2010, Federal agencies have conducted nearly 
        1,000 prize competitions to help address some of our Nation's 
        greatest challenges.
            (5) Prize competitions at the National Science Foundation 
        have helped to spark further research on important and emerging 
        topics within data science, engineering, astrophysics, biology, 
        and other areas.
            (6) Artificial Intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) 
        are rapidly being developed for deployment across all sectors 
        creating a demand for new innovation from researchers and 
        developers in order to address technological and social 
        challenges from AI/ML.
            (7) AI/ML technologies are currently being used to create 
        sophisticated deep fake videos, images, and audio, digital 
        content that is manipulated in order to spread false 
        information which can lead to a degradation of public trust and 
        national security concerns.
            (8) As deep fake technology continues to advance, its 
        detection will become increasingly difficult without new tools 
        for digital forensics.
            (9) Although other Federal agencies are currently involved 
        in supporting and conducting research into deep fake detection 
        technology in the context of national security, research 
        spurred by prize competitions at the National Science 
        Foundation can have broader benefits for the American public.

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIZE COMPETITION.

    The Director of the National Science Foundation shall carry out 
prize competitions pursuant to section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler 
Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3719) to incentivize 
research into technology that advances detection of deep fake audio, 
images, and video. The Director shall consider conducting subsequent or 
recurring competitions to account for changing and advancing 
technologies.
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