[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3006-S3007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 829. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Young, and Mr.
Heinrich) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the
bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:
Subtitle __--Additional Matters Relating to Artificial Intelligence
SEC. ___. REPORT ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REGULATION IN
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY.
(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, each of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,
the National Credit Union Administration, and the Bureau of
Consumer Financial Protection shall submit to the Committee
on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the
Committee on Financial Services of the House of
Representatives a report on its gap in knowledge relating to
artificial intelligence, including an analysis on--
(1) which tasks are most frequently being assisted or
completed with artificial intelligence in the institutions
the agency regulates;
(2) current governance standards in place for artificial
intelligence use at the agency and current standards in place
for artificial intelligence oversight by the agency;
(3) potentially additional regulatory authorities required
by the agency to continue to successfully execute its
mission;
(4) where artificial intelligence may lead to overlapping
regulatory issues between agencies that require
clarification;
(5) how the agency is currently using artificial
intelligence, how the agency plans to use such artificial
intelligence the next 3 years, and the expected impact,
including fiscal and staffing, of those plans; and
(6) what resources, monetary or other resources, if any,
the agency requires to both adapt to the changes that
artificial intelligence will bring to the regulatory
landscape and to adequately adopt and oversee the use of
artificial intelligence across its operations described in
paragraph (5).
(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be
construed to require an agency to include confidential
supervisory information or pre-decisional or deliberative
non-public information in a report under this section.
SEC. ___. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BUG BOUNTY PROGRAMS.
(a) Program for Foundational Artificial Intelligence
Products Being Incorporated by Department of Defense.--
(1) Development required.--Not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act and subject to the
availability of appropriations, the Chief Data and Artificial
Intelligence Officer of the Department of Defense shall
develop a bug bounty program for foundational artificial
intelligence models being integrated into Department of
Defense missions and operations.
(2) Collaboration.--In developing the program required by
paragraph (1), the Chief may collaborate with the heads of
other government agencies that have expertise in
cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
(3) Implementation authorized.--The Chief may carry out the
program developed pursuant to subsection (a).
(4) Contracts.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure, as
may be appropriate, that whenever the Department of Defense
enters into any contract, the contract allows for
participation in the bug bounty program developed pursuant to
paragraph (1).
(5) Rule of construction.--Nothing in this subsection shall
be construed to require--
(A) the use of any foundational artificial intelligence
model; or
(B) the implementation of the program developed pursuant to
paragraph (1) in order for the Department to incorporate a
foundational artificial intelligence model.
(b) Briefing.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Chief shall provide the
congressional defense committees a briefing on--
(1) the development and implementation of bug bounty
programs the Chief considers relevant to the matters covered
by this section; and
(2) long-term plans of the Chief with respect to such bug
bounty programs.
(c) Definition of Foundational Artificial Intelligence
Model.--In this section, the term ``foundational artificial
intelligence model'' means an adaptive generative model that
is trained on a broad set of unlabeled data sets that can be
used for different tasks, with minimal fine-tuning.
SEC. ___. VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS STUDY FOR ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE-ENABLED MILITARY APPLICATIONS.
(a) Study Required.--Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Digital and
Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) of the Department of
Defense shall complete a study analyzing the vulnerabilities
to the privacy, security, and accuracy of, and capacity to
assess, artificial intelligence-enabled military
applications, as well as research and development needs for
such applications.
(b) Elements.--The study required by subsection (a) shall
cover the following:
(1) Research and development needs and transition pathways
to advance explainable and interpretable artificial
intelligence-enabled military applications, including the
capability to assess the underlying algorithms and data
models of such applications.
(2) Assessing the potential risks to the privacy, security,
and accuracy of underlying architectures and algorithms of
artificial intelligence-enabled military applications,
including the following:
(A) Individual foundational artificial intelligence models,
including the adequacy of existing testing, training, and
auditing for such models to ensure models can be properly
assessed over time.
(B) The interactions of multiple artificial intelligence-
enabled military applications, and the ability to detect and
assess new, complex, and emergent behavior amongst individual
agents, as well as the collective impact, including how such
changes may affect risk to privacy, security, and accuracy
over time.
(C) The impact of increased agency in artificial
intelligence-enabled military applications and how such
increased agency may affect the ability to detect and assess
new, complex, and emergent behavior, as well risks to the
privacy, security, and accuracy of such applications over
time.
(3) Assessing the survivability and traceability of
decision support systems that are integrated with artificial
intelligence-enabled military applications and used in a
contested environment, including--
(A) potential benefits and risks to Department of Defense
missions and operations of implementing such applications;
and
(B) other technical or operational constraints to ensure
such decision support systems that are integrated with
artificial intelligence-enabled military applications are
able to adhere to the Department of Defense Ethical
Principles for Artificial Intelligence.
(4) Identification of existing artificial intelligence
metrics, developmental, testing and audit capabilities,
personnel, and infrastructure within the Department of
Defense, including test and evaluation facilities, needed to
enable ongoing identification and assessment under paragraphs
(1) through (3), and other factors such as--
(A) implications for deterrence systems based on systems
warfare; and
(B) vulnerability to systems confrontation on the system
and system-of-systems level.
(5) Identification of gaps or research needs to
sufficiently respond to the elements outlined in this
subsection that are not currently, or not sufficiently,
funded within the Department of Defense.
(c) Coordination.--In carrying out the study required by
subsection (a), the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence
Officer shall coordinate with the following:
(1) The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA).
(2) The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Evaluation.
(3) The Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
(4) The Director for Operational Test and Evaluation
(DOT&E) of the Department.
(5) As the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence
Officer considers appropriate, the following:
(A) The Secretary of Energy.
(B) The Director of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
(C) The Director of the National Science Foundation.
(D) The head of the National Artificial Intelligence
Initiative Office of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy.
(E) Members and representatives of industry.
(F) Members and representatives of academia.
(d) Interim Briefing.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Digital and
Artificial Intelligence Officer shall provide the
congressional defense committees a briefing on the interim
findings of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence
Officer with respect to the study being conducted pursuant to
subsection (a).
(e) Final Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Chief Digital and Artificial
Intelligence
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Officer shall submit to the congressional defense committees
a final report on the findings of the Chief Digital and
Artificial Intelligence Officer with respect to the study
conducted pursuant to subsection (a).
(2) Form.--The final report submitted pursuant to paragraph
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified for, but may include a
classified annex.
(f) Definition of Foundational Artificial Intelligence
Model.--In this section, the term ``foundational artificial
intelligence model'' means an adaptive generative model that
is trained on a broad set of unlabeled data sets that can be
used for different tasks, with minimal fine-tuning.
SEC. ___. REPORT ON DATA SHARING AND COORDINATION.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on
ways to improve data sharing, interoperability, and quality,
as may be appropriate, across the Department of Defense.
(b) Contents.--The report submitted pursuant to subsection
(a) shall include the following:
(1) A description of policies, practices, and cultural
barriers that impede data sharing and interoperability, and
lead to data quality issues, among components of the
Department.
(2) The impact a lack of appropriate levels of data
sharing, interoperability, and quality has on Departmental
collaboration, efficiency, interoperability, and joint-
decisionmaking.
(3) A review of current efforts to promote appropriate data
sharing, including to centralize data management, such as the
AVANA program.
(4) A description of near-, mid-, and long-term efforts
that the Office of the Secretary of Defense plans to
implement to promote data sharing and interoperability,
including efforts to improve data quality.
(5) A detailed plan to implement a data sharing and
interoperability strategy that supports effective development
and employment of artificial intelligence-enabled military
applications.
(6) A detailed assessment of the implementation of the
Department of Defense Data Strategy issued in 2020, as well
as the use of data decrees to improve management rigor in the
Department when it comes to data sharing and
interoperability.
(7) Any recommendations for Congress with respect to
assisting the Department in these efforts.
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