[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 200 (Wednesday, November 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8352]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4733. Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. 
Rosen, Ms. Collins, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Peters, and Mr. King) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 
submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 
4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 G of title XII, add the following:

     SECTION 1283. UNITED STATES-ISRAEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
                   CENTER.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``United 
     States-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act''.
       (b) Establishment of Center.--The Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of 
     the National Science Foundation, and the heads of other 
     relevant Federal agencies, may establish the United States-
     Israel Artificial Intelligence Center (referred to in this 
     section as the ``Center'') in the United States.
       (c) Purpose.--The purpose of the Center shall be to 
     leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of 
     institutions of higher education and private sector entities 
     in the United States and Israel to develop more robust 
     research and development cooperation in the areas of--
       (1) machine learning;
       (2) image classification;
       (3) object detection;
       (4) speech recognition;
       (5) natural language processing;
       (6) data labeling;
       (7) computer vision; and
       (8) model explainability and interpretability.
       (d) Artificial Intelligence Principles.--In carrying out 
     the purposes set forth in subsection (c), the Center shall 
     adhere to the principles for the use of artificial 
     intelligence in the Federal Government set forth in section 3 
     of Executive Order 13960 (85 Fed. Reg. 78939).
       (e) International Partnerships.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of State and the heads of 
     other relevant Federal agencies, subject to the availability 
     of appropriations, may enter into cooperative agreements 
     supporting and enhancing dialogue and planning involving 
     international partnerships between the Department of State or 
     such agencies and the Government of Israel and its 
     ministries, offices, and institutions.
       (2) Federal share.--Not more than 50 percent of the costs 
     of implementing the agreements entered into pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) may be paid by the United States Government.
       (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated for the Center $10,000,000 for each of the 
     fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
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