[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3602-S3603]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 618. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. 
Schatz) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the 
bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

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     SEC. ___. BRIEFING ON EXPLAINABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

       (a) Briefing Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall brief the congressional defense committees on the 
     development and applications of explainable artificial 
     intelligence.
       (b) Elements.--The briefing required under subsection (a) 
     shall address the following:
       (1) The extent to which the Department of Defense currently 
     uses and prioritizes explainable artificial intelligence.
       (2) The limitations of explainable artificial intelligence 
     and the plans of the Department to address those limitations.
       (3) The future plans of the Department to require 
     explainable artificial intelligence, particularly in 
     technologies that have warfighting applications.
       (4) Any potential roadblocks to the effective deployment of 
     explainable artificial intelligence across the Department.
       (5) Identification and description of programs and 
     activities, including funding and schedule, to develop or 
     procure explainable artificial intelligence to meet defense 
     requirements and technology development goals.
       (6) Such other matters as the Secretary considers 
     appropriate.
       (c) Form of Briefing.--The briefing required under 
     subsection (a) shall be provided in unclassified form, but 
     may include a classified supplement.
       (d) Definition of Explainable Artificial Intelligence.--In 
     this section, the term `` explainable artificial 
     intelligence'' means artificial intelligence that has the 
     ability to demonstrate the rationale behind its decisions in 
     order for its human user to comprehend and characterize the 
     strengths and weaknesses of its decisionmaking process, as 
     well as understand how it will behave in the future in the 
     contexts in which it is used.
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