[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4704 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4704

To require the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response shall 
    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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2023

Ms. Eshoo (for herself and Mr. Crenshaw) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response shall 
    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.

    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 ``Artificial Intelligence and 
Biosecurity Risk Assessment Act''.

SEC. 2. REGULAR ASSESSMENT OF EMERGING RISKS.

    Section 2811 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh-10) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) Assessment of Emerging Risks.--In carrying out subsection 
(b)(4)(I), the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response shall 
conduct risk assessments and implement strategic initiatives or 
activities to address whether technical advancements in artificial 
intelligence, such as open-source artificial intelligence models and 
large language models, can be used intentionally or unintentionally to 
develop novel pathogens, viruses, bioweapons, or chemical weapons. Such 
initiatives and activities may include--
            ``(1) regularly monitoring and researching potential global 
        biological catastrophic risks in which biological agents could 
        lead to sudden, extraordinary loss of life and sustained damage 
        to national governments, international relationships, 
        economies, societal stability, or global security; and
            ``(2) including in the National Health Security Strategy 
        under section 2802 a summary of the risk assessment conducted 
        under this subsection.''.
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