National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020

I 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 6216 To establish the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 12, 2020 Ms. JOHNSON of Texas (for herself, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. OLSON, Mr. LIPINSKI, and Mr. WEBER of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology A BILL To establish the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4 ‘‘National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020’’. 5 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6 this Act is as follows: 7 Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Definitions. TITLE I—NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6211 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 6216 IH Sec. 101. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Sec. 102. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office. Sec. 103. Coordination by Interagency Committee. Sec. 104. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee. Sec. 105. National Academies artificial intelligence impact study on workforce. Sec. 106. GAO report on computational needs. TITLE II—NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTES Sec. 201. National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. TITLE III—NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES Sec. 301. National Institute of Standards and Technology activities. TITLE IV—NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES Sec. 401. Artificial intelligence research and education. TITLE V—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM Sec. 501. Department of Energy Artificial Intelligence Research Program. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1 Congress finds the following: 2 (1) Artificial intelligence is a tool that has the 3 potential to change and possibly transform every 4 sector of the United States economy and society. 5 (2) The Federal Government should continue to 6 play an important role advancing research, develop- 7 ment, standards, and education activities in artificial 8 intelligence through coordination and collaboration 9 between government, academia, and the private sec- 10 tor to leverage the intellectual, physical, and digital 11 resources of each stakeholder. 12 (3) The Federal Government lacks clear under- 13 standing of the capabilities of artificial intelligence 14 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 6216 IH and its potential to affect various social and eco- 1 nomic sectors, including ethical concerns, national 2 security implications, and workforce impacts. 3 (4) Researchers from academia, Federal labora- 4 tories, and much of the private sector have limited 5 access to many high-quality datasets, computing re- 6 sources, or real-world testing environments to design 7 and deploy safe and trustworthy artificial intel- 8 ligence systems. 9 (5) There is a lack of standards and 10 benchmarking for artificial intelligence systems that 11 academia and the public and private sectors can use 12 to evaluate the performance of these systems before 13 and after deployment. 14 (6) Artificial intelligence is increasingly becom- 15 ing a highly interdisciplinary field with expertise re- 16 quired from a diverse range of scientific and other 17 scholarly disciplines that traditionally work inde- 18 pendently and continue to face cultural and institu- 19 tional barriers to large scale collaboration. 20 (7) Current Federal investments and funding 21 mechanisms are largely insufficient to incentivize 22 and support the large-scale interdisciplinary and 23 public-private collaborations that will be required to 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 6216 IH advance trustworthy artificial intelligence systems in 1 the United States. 2 (8) The United States education pipeline for ar- 3 tificial intelligence fields faces significant challenges. 4 Not only does the artificial intelligence research field 5 lack the gender and racial diversity of the American 6 population as a whole, but it is failing to both retain 7 researchers and adequately support educators to 8 meet the demands of the next generation of students 9 studying artificial intelligence. 10 (9) In order to help drive forward advances in 11 trustworthy artificial intelligence across all sectors 12 and to the benefit of all Americans, the Federal 13 Government must provide sufficient resources and 14 use its convening power to facilitate the growth of 15 artificial intelligence human capital, research, and 16 innovation capacity in academia and other nonprofit 17 research organizations, companies of all sizes and 18 across all sectors, and within the Federal Govern- 19 ment. 20 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 21 In this Act: 22 (1) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘Advi- 23 sory Committee’’ means the National Artificial Intel- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 5 •HR 6216 IH ligence Advisory Committee established under sec- 1 tion 104(a). 2 (2) AGENCY HEAD.—The term ‘‘agency head’’ 3 means the head of any Executive agency (as defined 4 in section 105 of title 5, United States Code) other 5 than the Department of Defense. 6 (3) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘‘ar- 7 tificial intelligence’’ means a machine-based system 8 that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, 9 make predictions, recommendations or decisions in- 10 fluencing real or virtual environments. Artificial in- 11 telligence systems use machine and human-based in- 12 puts to— 13 (A) perceive real and virtual environments; 14 (B) abstract such perceptions into models 15 through analysis in an automated manner; and 16 (C) use model inference to formulate op- 17 tions for information or action. 18 (4) INITIATIVE.—The term ‘‘Initiative’’ means 19 the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative estab- 20 lished under section 101(a). 21 (5) INITIATIVE OFFICE.—The term ‘‘Initiative 22 Office’’ means the National Artificial Intelligence 23 Initiative Office established under section 102(a). 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 6 •HR 6216 IH (6) INSTITUTE.—The term ‘‘Institute’’ means 1 an Artificial Intelligence Research Institute de- 2 scribed in section 201(b)(1). 3 (7) INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE.—The term 4 ‘‘Interagency Committee’’ means the interagency 5 committee established under section 103(a). 6 (8) K-12 EDUCATION.—The term ‘‘K-12 edu- 7 cation’’ means elementary school and secondary edu- 8 cation, as such terms are defined in section 8101 of 9 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 10 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 11 (9) MACHINE LEARNING.—The term ‘‘machine 12 learning’’ means an application of artificial intel- 13 ligence that is characterized by providing systems 14 the ability to automatically learn and improve on the 15 basis of data or experience, without being explicitly 16 programmed. 17 TITLE I—NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL 18 INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE 19 SEC. 101. NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INITIA- 20 TIVE. 21 (a) ESTABLISHMENT; PURPOSES.—The President 22 shall establish and implement an initiative to be known 23 as the ‘‘National Artificial Intelligence Initiative’’. The 24 purposes of the Initiative shall be to— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 7 •HR 6216 IH (1) ensure continued United States leadership 1 in artificial intelligence research and development; 2 (2) lead the world in the development and use 3 of trustworthy artificial intelligence systems in the 4 public and private sectors; 5 (3) maximize the benefits of artificial intel- 6 ligence systems for all American people; and 7 (4) prepare the present and future United 8 States workforce for the integration of artificial in- 9 telligence systems across all sectors of the economy 10 and society. 11 (b) INITIATIVE ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out the Ini- 12 tiative, the President, acting through the Initiative Office, 13 the Interagency Committee, and agency heads as the 14 President considers appropriate, shall carry out activities 15 that include the following: 16 (1) Sustained, consistent, and coordinated sup- 17 port for artificial intelligence research and develop- 18 ment through grants, cooperative agreements, 19 testbeds, and access to data and computing re- 20 sources. 21 (2) Support for the development of voluntary 22 standards, best practices, and benchmarks for the 23 development and use of trustworthy artificial intel- 24 ligence systems. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 8 •HR 6216 IH (3) Support for educational programs at all lev- 1 els, in both formal and informal learning environ- 2 ments, to prepare the American workforce and the 3 general public to be able to use and interact with ar- 4 tificial intelligence systems, as well as adapt to the 5 potentially transformative impact of artificial intel- 6 ligence on society and the economy. 7 (4) Support for interdisciplinary research, edu- 8 cation, and training programs for students and re- 9 searchers that promote learning in the methods and 10 systems used in artificial intelligence and foster 11 interdisciplinary perspectives and collaborations 12 among subject matter experts in relevant fields, in- 13 cluding computer science, mathematics, statistics, 14 engineering, social sciences, psychology, behavioral 15 science, ethics, security, legal scholarship, and other 16 disciplines that will be necessary to advance artificial 17 intelligence research and development responsibly. 18 (5) Support for partnerships to leverage knowl- 19 edge, computing resources, access to open datasets, 20 and other resources from industry, government, non- 21 profit organizations, Federal laboratories, State pro- 22 grams, and institutions of higher education to ad- 23 vance activities under the Initiative. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 9 •HR 6216 IH (6) Interagency planning and coordination of 1 Federal artificial intelligence research, development, 2 demonstration, standards engagement, and other ac- 3 tivities under the Initiative. 4 (7) Outreach to diverse stakeholders, including 5 citizen groups and industry, to ensure public input 6 is taken into account in the activities of the Initia- 7 tive. 8 (8) Leveraging existing Federal investments to 9 advance objectives of the Initiative. 10 (9) Support for a network of interdisciplinary 11 artificial intelligence research institutes, as described 12 in section 201(b)(7)(B). 13 (10) Support opportunities for international co- 14 operation with strategic allies, as appropriate, on the 15 research and development, assessment, and re- 16 sources for trustworthy artificial intelligence systems 17 and the development of voluntary consensus stand- 18 ards for those systems. 19 SEC. 102. NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE 20 OFFICE. 21 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of 22 Science and Technology Policy shall establish or designate, 23 and appoint a director of, an office to be known as the 24 ‘‘National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office’’ to carry 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 10 •HR 6216 IH out the responsibilities described in subsection (b) with re- 1 spect to the Initiative. The Initiative Office shall have suf- 2 ficient staff to carry out such responsibilities, including 3 staff detailed from the Federal departments and agencies 4 described in section 103(c). 5 (b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Director of the Initia- 6 tive Office shall— 7 (1) provide technical and administrative support 8 to the Interagency Committee and the Advisory 9 Committee; 10 (2) serve as the point of contact on Federal ar- 11 tificial intelligence activities for Federal departments 12 and agencies, industry, academia, nonprofit organi- 13 zations, professional societies, State governments, 14 and such other persons as the Initiative Office con- 15 siders appropriate to exchange technical and pro- 16 grammatic information; 17 (3) conduct regular public outreach to diverse 18 stakeholders, including through the convening of 19 conferences and educational events, the publication 20 of information about significant Initiative activities 21 on a publicly available website, and the dissemina- 22 tion of findings and recommendations of the Advi- 23 sory Committee, as appropriate; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:31 Mar 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6216.IH H6216 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 11 •HR 6216 IH (4) promote access to and early adoption of the 1 technologies, innovations, lessons learned, and exper- 2 tise derived from Initiative activities to agency mis- 3 sions and systems across the Federal Government, 4 and to industry, including startup companies. 5 (c) FUNDING ESTIMATE.—The Director of the Office 6 of Science and Technology Policy shall develop an estimate 7 of the funds necessary to carry out the activities of the 8 Initiative Coordination Office, including an estimate of 9 how much each participating Federal department and 10 agency described in section 103(c) will contribute to such 11 funds, and submit such estimate to Congress not later 12 than 90 days after the enactment of this Act. The Director 13 shall update this estimate each year based on participating 14 agency investments in artificial intelligence. 15 SEC. 103. COORDINATION BY INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE. 16 (a) INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE.—The Director of the 17 Office of Science and Technology Policy, acting through 18 the National Science and Technology Council, shall estab- 19 lish or designate an Interagency Committee to coordinate 20 Federal programs and activities in support of the Init [Text truncated for display. Full text available on Congress.gov.]