FUTURE of Artificial Intelligence Act of 2020

I 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 7559 To require the Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, to establish an advisory committee to advise the President on matters relat- ing to the development of artificial intelligence, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JULY 9, 2020 Mr. OLSON (for himself and Mr. MCNERNEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology A BILL To require the Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, to establish an advisory com- mittee to advise the President on matters relating to the development of artificial intelligence, 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. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fundamentally Under- 4 standing The Usability and Realistic Evolution of Artifi- 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 7559 IH cial Intelligence Act of 2020’’ or the ‘‘FUTURE of Artifi- 1 cial Intelligence Act of 2020’’. 2 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 3 It is the sense of Congress that— 4 (1) understanding and preparing for the ongo- 5 ing development of artificial intelligence is critical to 6 the economic prosperity and social stability of the 7 United States; 8 (2) as artificial intelligence evolves, it can great- 9 ly benefit society by powering the information econ- 10 omy, fostering better informed decisions and helping 11 unlock answers to questions that, as of the date of 12 the enactment of this Act, are unanswerable; 13 (3) for the reasons set forth in paragraph (2), 14 it is beneficial to better understand artificial intel- 15 ligence and foster the development of artificial intel- 16 ligence in a manner that maximizes its benefit to so- 17 ciety; and 18 (4) it is critical that the priorities of the advi- 19 sory committee established under section 3(a)(1) in- 20 clude developing guidance or recommendations— 21 (A) to promote a climate of investment and 22 innovation to ensure the global competitiveness 23 of the United States; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 7559 IH (B) to optimize the development of artifi- 1 cial intelligence to address the potential growth, 2 restructuring, or other changes in the United 3 States workforce that result from the develop- 4 ment of artificial intelligence, with particular 5 attention to traditionally underrepresented pop- 6 ulations that may be uniquely impacted; 7 (C) to promote and support the unbiased 8 development and application of artificial intel- 9 ligence; and 10 (D) to protect the privacy rights of individ- 11 uals. 12 SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COM- 13 MITTEE ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLE- 14 MENTATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 15 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 16 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Chief Technology Offi- 17 cer shall establish a Federal advisory committee to 18 advise the President on matters relating to the de- 19 velopment of artificial intelligence. 20 (2) DESIGNATION.—The Federal advisory com- 21 mittee established under paragraph (1) shall be 22 known as the ‘‘Federal Advisory Committee on the 23 Development and Implementation of Artificial Intel- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 7559 IH ligence’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Advisory 1 Committee’’). 2 (b) PURPOSES OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 3 (1) ADVICE.—The Advisory Committee shall 4 provide advice to the Chief Technology Officer on 5 matters relating to the development and use of arti- 6 ficial general intelligence and narrow artificial intel- 7 ligence, including on the following as they relate to 8 artificial intelligence: 9 (A) The competitiveness of the United 10 States, including matters relating to the pro- 11 motion of public and private sector investment 12 and innovation into the development of artificial 13 intelligence. 14 (B) Workforce, including matters relating 15 to the potential for using artificial intelligence 16 for rapid retraining of workers, due to the pos- 17 sible effect of technological displacement and to 18 increase the labor force participation of tradi- 19 tionally underrepresented populations, including 20 minorities, low-income populations, and persons 21 with disabilities. 22 (C) Education, including matters relating 23 to science, technology, engineering, and mathe- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 5 •HR 7559 IH matics education to prepare the United States 1 workforce as the needs of employers change. 2 (D) Ethics training and development for 3 individuals, including both private and govern- 4 ment technologists, working on and using artifi- 5 cial intelligence. 6 (E) Matters relating to open sharing of 7 data and the open sharing of research on artifi- 8 cial intelligence. 9 (F) International cooperation and competi- 10 tiveness, including matters relating to the com- 11 petitive international landscape for artificial in- 12 telligence-related industries. 13 (G) Accountability and legal rights, includ- 14 ing matters relating to the responsibility for 15 any violations of laws by an artificial intel- 16 ligence system and the compatibility of inter- 17 national regulations. 18 (H) Matters relating to machine learning 19 bias through core cultural and societal norms. 20 (I) Matters relating to how artificial intel- 21 ligence can serve or enhance opportunities in 22 rural communities. 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 6 •HR 7559 IH (J) Government efficiency, including mat- 1 ters relating to how to promote cost saving and 2 streamline operations. 3 (K) Matters relating to individual civil 4 rights, including an assessment regarding how 5 rights are or will be affected by the use of arti- 6 ficial intelligence technology and whether such 7 uses should be subject to additional controls, 8 oversight, or limitations. 9 (L) Matters relating to urbanization and 10 the development of smart cities. 11 (2) STUDY.—The Advisory Committee shall 12 study and assess the following: 13 (A) How the term ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ 14 should be defined for purposes of this section 15 and how the relevant scope of the Advisory 16 Committee should be defined, including how 17 such definitions relate to artificial systems and 18 both narrow and general forms of artificial in- 19 telligence. In carrying out this subparagraph, 20 the Advisory Committee shall consider the fol- 21 lowing: 22 ‘‘(1) The term ‘artificial intelligence’ includes 23 the following: 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 7 •HR 7559 IH ‘‘(A) Any artificial systems that perform 1 tasks under varying and unpredictable cir- 2 cumstances, without significant human over- 3 sight, or that can learn from their experience 4 and improve their performance. Such systems 5 may be developed in computer software, phys- 6 ical hardware, or other contexts not yet con- 7 templated. They may solve tasks requiring 8 human-like perception, cognition, planning, 9 learning, communication, or physical action. In 10 general, the more human-like the system within 11 the context of its tasks, the more it can be said 12 to use artificial intelligence. 13 ‘‘(B) Systems that think like humans, such 14 as cognitive architectures and neural networks. 15 ‘‘(C) Systems that act like humans, such 16 as systems that can pass the Turing test or 17 other comparable test via natural language 18 processing, knowledge representation, auto- 19 mated reasoning, and learning. 20 ‘‘(D) A set of techniques, including ma- 21 chine learning, that seek to approximate some 22 cognitive task. 23 ‘‘(E) Systems that act rationally, such as 24 intelligent software agents and embodied robots 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 8 •HR 7559 IH that achieve goals via perception, planning, rea- 1 soning, learning, communicating, decision mak- 2 ing, and acting. 3 ‘‘(2) The term ‘artificial general intelligence’ 4 means a notional future artificial intelligence system 5 that exhibits apparently intelligent behavior at least 6 as advanced as a person across the range of cog- 7 nitive, emotional, and social behaviors. 8 ‘‘(3) The term ‘narrow artificial intelligence’ 9 means an artificial intelligence system that address- 10 es specific application areas such as playing stra- 11 tegic games, language translation, self-driving vehi- 12 cles, and facial or other image recognition.’’. 13 (B) How to create a climate for public and 14 private sector investment and innovation in ar- 15 tificial intelligence. 16 (C) The possible benefits and effects that 17 the development of artificial intelligence may 18 have on the economy, workforce, and competi- 19 tiveness of the United States. 20 (D) Whether and how networked, auto- 21 mated, artificial intelligence applications and 22 robotic devices will displace or create jobs and 23 how any job-related gains relating to artificial 24 intelligence can be maximized. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 9 •HR 7559 IH (E) How bias can be identified and elimi- 1 nated in the development of artificial intel- 2 ligence and in the algorithms that support 3 them, including with respect to the following: 4 (i) The selection and processing of 5 data used to train artificial intelligence. 6 (ii) Diversity in the development of 7 artificial intelligence. 8 (iii) The ways and places the systems 9 are deployed and the potential harmful 10 outcomes. 11 (F) Whether and how to incorporate eth- 12 ical standards in the development and imple- 13 mentation of artificial intelligence. 14 (G) How the Federal Government can en- 15 courage technological progress in implementa- 16 tion of artificial intelligence that benefits the 17 full spectrum of social and economic classes. 18 (H) How the privacy rights of individuals 19 are or will be affected by technological innova- 20 tion relating to artificial intelligence. 21 (I) Whether technological advancements in 22 artificial intelligence have or will outpace the 23 legal and regulatory regimes implemented to 24 protect consumers. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 10 •HR 7559 IH (J) How existing laws, including those con- 1 cerning data access and privacy, should be mod- 2 ernized to enable the potential of artificial intel- 3 ligence. 4 (K) How the Federal Government utilizes 5 artificial intelligence to handle large or complex 6 data sets. 7 (L) How ongoing dialogues and consulta- 8 tions with multi-stakeholder groups can maxi- 9 mize the potential of artificial intelligence and 10 further development of artificial intelligence 11 technologies that can benefit everyone inclu- 12 sively. 13 (M) How the development of artificial in- 14 telligence can affect cost savings and streamline 15 operations in various areas of government oper- 16 ations, including health care, cybersecurity, in- 17 frastructure, and disaster recovery. 18 (N) Such other matters as the Advisory 19 Committee considers appropriate. 20 (3) REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.— 21 (A) REPORT BY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 22 Not later than 540 days after the date of the 23 enactment of this Act, the Advisory Committee 24 shall submit to the Chief Technology Officer 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 11 •HR 7559 IH and to Congress a report on the findings of the 1 Advisory Committee and such recommendations 2 as the Advisory Committee may have for ad- 3 ministrative or legislative action relating to arti- 4 ficial intelligence. 5 (B) RECOMMENDATIONS OF CHIEF TECH- 6 NOLOGY OFFICER.—Not later than 90 days 7 after receiving the report submitted under sub- 8 paragraph (A), the Chief Technology Officer 9 shall review the report and submit to Congress 10 such recommendations as the Chief Technology 11 Officer may have with respect to the matters 12 contained in the report submitted under sub- 13 paragraph (A). 14 (c) MEMBERSHIP.— 15 (1) VOTING MEMBERS.— 16 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Advisory Com- 17 mittee shall be composed of 19 voting members 18 who shall be appointed by the Chief Technology 19 Officer, with advisement from the Chair and 20 Ranking Member of the Committee on Com- 21 merce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen- 22 ate and the Chair and Ranking Member of the 23 Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 24 of the House of Representatives, for purposes 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7559.IH H7559 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 12 •HR 7559 IH of the Advisory Committee from among individ- 1 uals with expertise in matters relating to work- 2 force development, ethics, privacy, artificial in- 3 telligence, or computer science. 4 (B) REPRESENTATION.—In carrying out 5 subparagraph (A), the Chief Technology Officer 6 shall ensure that voting members are appointed 7 as follows: 8 (i) Five members from the academic 9 or research community. 10 (ii) Six members from private indus- 11 try, at least 1 of whom shall be from a 12 small business concern. 13 (iii) Six members from civil society, at 14 least 2 of whom shall be from groups that 15 advocate for civil liberties or civil rights. 16 (iv) Two members from labor organi- 17 zations or groups, including those that rep- 18 resent the unique interests of traditionally 19 underrepresented populations. 20 (C) GEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITY.—In car- 21 rying out subparagraph (A), the Chief Tech- 22 nology Officer shall ensure that the voting 23 members of the Advisory Committee come from 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 Aug 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H755 [Text truncated for display. 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