[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4950]
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  SA 2611. 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. __. NET ASSESSMENT OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

       (a) Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall, acting through 
     the Office of Net Assessment, conduct a study to analyze the 
     impact of future developments in artificial general 
     intelligence on the military readiness and economic 
     competitiveness of the United States.
       (b) Scenarios.--
       (1) In general.--In conducting the study required by 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall analyze multiple 
     scenarios in which a specified artificial intelligence 
     capability is assumed to exist and the goal is to understand 
     what the implications would be on the United States military 
     and the broader United States economy.
       (2) Levels of capability.--Each scenario analyzed under 
     paragraph (1) shall assume the existence of a certain level 
     of capability to perform intellectual or physical tasks using 
     software or hardware, but without human involvement, and may 
     assume a specific cost of this artificial intelligence 
     capability, such as the ability to perform all job tasks that 
     a typical human would perform at a specified price.
       (3) Dynamic capabilities.--Scenarios analyzed under this 
     subsection may allow the capabilities of artificial 
     intelligence systems to increase over time instead of 
     remaining fixed.
       (c) Properties.--The study conducted under subsection (a) 
     shall have the following properties:
       (1) A taxonomy of levels of artificial general 
     intelligence. To the degree possible, such taxonomy shall be 
     developed in conjunction with relevant experts in the Federal 
     Government or outside of government and shall be as 
     consistent as possible with any similar taxonomy developed by 
     such experts.
       (2) At least one scenario under subsection (b) shall assume 
     the existence of an artificial general intelligence system 
     that is more intelligent than any human.
       (3) The study is not required to estimate the likelihood of 
     any such scenario occurring, nor should the likelihood of the 
     scenario occurring affect the analysis of the scenario. 
     However, the study may optionally estimate these likelihoods.
       (d) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on the findings of 
     the Secretary with respect to the study conducted under 
     subsection (a).
       (2) Form.--The report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) 
     shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (e) Briefing.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
     submittal of the report under subsection (d), the Secretary 
     shall provide the congressional defense committees a briefing 
     on the main findings of the Secretary with respect to the 
     study conducted under subsection (a).
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