[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4950]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2612. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 B of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3123. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY.

       (a) Evaluations.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator for Nuclear Security 
     shall develop tools and testbeds to evaluate the capabilities 
     of artificial intelligence systems to assist in the 
     development of chemical, biological, nuclear, or radiological 
     weapons.
       (2) Public artificial intelligence systems.--The 
     Administrator shall evaluate publicly available artificial 
     intelligence systems for such capabilities on an ongoing 
     basis.
       (b) Requirements on Commercial Artificial Intelligence 
     Providers.--
       (1) In general.--Any commercial cloud computing service 
     that provides unclassified access to artificial intelligence 
     systems on its platform, and which in general offers software 
     services in a classified computing environment to the 
     Department of Energy or Department of Defense, shall, at the 
     request of the Administrator, offer a particular artificial 
     intelligence system in a classified computing environment at 
     no cost to the National Nuclear Security Administration, upon 
     a determination by the Administrator that the specified 
     artificial intelligence system is relevant for performing the 
     tasks specified in subsection (a).
       (2) Assistance.--Developers of any such artificial 
     intelligence systems shall provide any necessary design and 
     engineering assistance necessary to support the usage of 
     those systems in the classified computing environment.
       (c) Briefing.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear Security 
     shall provide to the congressional defense committees, the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, and 
     the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
     Representatives, a classified briefing that includes--
       (1) a description of the work performed by the National 
     Nuclear Security Administration in response to Executive 
     Order 14110 (88 Fed. Reg. 75191; relating to safe, secure, 
     and trustworthy development and use of artificial 
     intelligence) and the evaluations conducted pursuant to 
     subsection (a) to understand the national security risks 
     posed by artificial intelligence;
       (2) a description of the extent to which commercial and 
     open source artificial intelligence systems can generate 
     sensitive or classified information about nuclear weapons, 
     and whether any such systems are developed using classified 
     information;
       (3) a description of the status of authorities for running 
     commercial and open source artificial intelligence systems on 
     classified computational infrastructure;
       (4) a summary of potential risk mitigation and response 
     options in the event that Restricted Data (as that term is 
     defined in section 11 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 
     U.S.C. 2014)) is discovered on, or generated by, commercial 
     or open source artificial intelligence systems;
       (5) recommendations regarding the infrastructure and 
     personnel needed to continue to evaluate the national 
     security risks of artificial intelligence systems; and
       (6) recommendations on the legal authorities needed by the 
     National Nuclear Security Administration to address national 
     security risks of artificial intelligence systems.
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