[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2399 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2399

  To require the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 19, 2023

 Mr. Markey (for himself and Mr. Budd) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response 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.

    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. ASSESSMENT OF EMERGING RISKS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

    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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