[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 26, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3522]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2054. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. Lujan) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502 
proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new 
Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science 
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require 
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, 
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical 
supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       After section 2115, insert the following:

     SEC. 2116. SAFETY AND ETHICS AI RESEARCH INSTITUTES.

       Within the National Artificial Intelligence Research 
     Institutes authorized in section 5201 of William M. (Mac) 
     Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     2021 (Public Law 116-283), the Director of the National 
     Science Foundation shall establish a specific theme that 
     addresses the areas of artificial intelligence safety and 
     artificial intelligence ethics in order to promote 
     development of trustworthy artificial intelligence and to 
     mitigate the creation and use of artificial intelligence 
     systems that behave in ways that cause harm.
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