[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5374-S5375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3074. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Rounds, and Mr. Schumer) 
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 NUCLEAR 
                   SECURITY.

       (a) Requirements on Commercial Artificial Intelligence 
     Providers.--
       (1) In general.--Any commercial cloud computing service 
     that provides unclassified

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     access to artificial intelligence systems on its platform, 
     and which in general offers software services in a classified 
     computing environment to the National Nuclear Security 
     Administration or the 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 
     evaluations of risks posed to national nuclear security by 
     that artificial intelligence system, or similar artificial 
     intelligence systems.
       (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.
       (b) 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 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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