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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 relating 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 committee to advise the President on matters relating to 

the development of artificial intelligence, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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1 cial Intelligence Act of 2020’’ or the ‘‘FUTURE of Artifi2 cial Intelligence Act of 2020’’. 

3 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

4 It is the sense of Congress that— 

5 (1) understanding and preparing for the ongo6 ing development of artificial intelligence is critical to 

7 the economic prosperity and social stability of the 

8 United States; 

9 (2) as artificial intelligence evolves, it can great10 ly benefit society by powering the information econ11 omy, fostering better informed decisions and helping 

12 unlock answers to questions that, as of the date of 

13 the enactment of this Act, are unanswerable; 

14 (3) for the reasons set forth in paragraph (2), 

15 it is beneficial to better understand artificial intel16 ligence and foster the development of artificial intel17 ligence in a manner that maximizes its benefit to so18 ciety; and 

19 (4) it is critical that the priorities of the advi20 sory committee established under section 3(a)(1) in21 clude developing guidance or recommendations— 

22 (A) to promote a climate of investment and 

23 innovation to ensure the global competitiveness 

24 of the United States; 


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1 (B) to optimize the development of artifi2 cial intelligence to address the potential growth, 

3 restructuring, or other changes in the United 

4 States workforce that result from the develop5 ment of artificial intelligence, with particular 

6 attention to traditionally underrepresented pop7 ulations that may be uniquely impacted; 

8 (C) to promote and support the unbiased 

9 development and application of artificial intel10 ligence; and 

11 (D) to protect the privacy rights of individ12 uals. 

13 SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COM14 MITTEE ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLE15 MENTATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 

16 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 

17 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Chief Technology Offi18 cer shall establish a Federal advisory committee to 

19 advise the President on matters relating to the de20 velopment of artificial intelligence. 

21 (2) DESIGNATION.—The Federal advisory com22 mittee established under paragraph (1) shall be 

23 known as the ‘‘Federal Advisory Committee on the 

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1 ligence’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Advisory 

2 Committee’’). 

3 (b) PURPOSES OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 

4 (1) ADVICE.—The Advisory Committee shall 

5 provide advice to the Chief Technology Officer on 

6 matters relating to the development and use of arti7 ficial general intelligence and narrow artificial intel8 ligence, including on the following as they relate to 

9 artificial intelligence: 

10 (A) The competitiveness of the United 

11 States, including matters relating to the pro12 motion of public and private sector investment 

13 and innovation into the development of artificial 

14 intelligence. 

15 (B) Workforce, including matters relating 

16 to the potential for using artificial intelligence 

17 for rapid retraining of workers, due to the pos18 sible effect of technological displacement and to 

19 increase the labor force participation of tradi20 tionally underrepresented populations, including 

21 minorities, low-income populations, and persons 

22 with disabilities. 

23 (C) Education, including matters relating 

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1 matics education to prepare the United States 

2 workforce as the needs of employers change. 

3 (D) Ethics training and development for 

4 individuals, including both private and govern5 ment technologists, working on and using artifi6 cial intelligence. 

7 (E) Matters relating to open sharing of 

8 data and the open sharing of research on artifi9 cial intelligence. 

10 (F) International cooperation and competi11 tiveness, including matters relating to the com12 petitive international landscape for artificial in13 telligence-related industries. 

14 (G) Accountability and legal rights, includ15 ing matters relating to the responsibility for 

16 any violations of laws by an artificial intel17 ligence system and the compatibility of inter18 national regulations. 

19 (H) Matters relating to machine learning 

20 bias through core cultural and societal norms. 

21 (I) Matters relating to how artificial intel22 ligence can serve or enhance opportunities in 

23 rural communities. 


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1 (J) Government efficiency, including mat2 ters relating to how to promote cost saving and 

3 streamline operations. 

4 (K) Matters relating to individual civil 

5 rights, including an assessment regarding how 

6 rights are or will be affected by the use of arti7 ficial intelligence technology and whether such 

8 uses should be subject to additional controls, 

9 oversight, or limitations. 

10 (L) Matters relating to urbanization and 

11 the development of smart cities. 

12 (2) STUDY.—The Advisory Committee shall 

13 study and assess the following: 

14 (A) How the term ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ 

15 should be defined for purposes of this section 

16 and how the relevant scope of the Advisory 

17 Committee should be defined, including how 

18 such definitions relate to artificial systems and 

19 both narrow and general forms of artificial in20 telligence. In carrying out this subparagraph, 

21 the Advisory Committee shall consider the fol22 lowing: 

23 ‘‘(1) The term ‘artificial intelligence’ includes 

24 the following: 


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1 ‘‘(A) Any artificial systems that perform 

2 tasks under varying and unpredictable cir3 cumstances, without significant human over4 sight, or that can learn from their experience 

5 and improve their performance. Such systems 

6 may be developed in computer software, phys7 ical hardware, or other contexts not yet con8 templated. They may solve tasks requiring 

9 human-like perception, cognition, planning, 

10 learning, communication, or physical action. In 

11 general, the more human-like the system within 

12 the context of its tasks, the more it can be said 

13 to use artificial intelligence. 

14 ‘‘(B) Systems that think like humans, such 

15 as cognitive architectures and neural networks. 

16 ‘‘(C) Systems that act like humans, such 

17 as systems that can pass the Turing test or 

18 other comparable test via natural language 

19 processing, knowledge representation, auto20 mated reasoning, and learning. 

21 ‘‘(D) A set of techniques, including ma22 chine learning, that seek to approximate some 

23 cognitive task. 

24 ‘‘(E) Systems that act rationally, such as 

25 intelligent software agents and embodied robots 


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1 that achieve goals via perception, planning, rea2 soning, learning, communicating, decision mak3 ing, and acting. 

4 ‘‘(2) The term ‘artificial general intelligence’ 

5 means a notional future artificial intelligence system 

6 that exhibits apparently intelligent behavior at least 

7 as advanced as a person across the range of cog8 nitive, emotional, and social behaviors. 

9 ‘‘(3) The term ‘narrow artificial intelligence’ 

10 means an artificial intelligence system that address11 es specific application areas such as playing stra12 tegic games, language translation, self-driving vehi13 cles, and facial or other image recognition.’’. 

14 (B) How to create a climate for public and 

15 private sector investment and innovation in ar16 tificial intelligence. 

17 (C) The possible benefits and effects that 

18 the development of artificial intelligence may 

19 have on the economy, workforce, and competi20 tiveness of the United States. 

21 (D) Whether and how networked, auto22 mated, artificial intelligence applications and 

23 robotic devices will displace or create jobs and 

24 how any job-related gains relating to artificial 

25 intelligence can be maximized. 


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1 (E) How bias can be identified and elimi2 nated in the development of artificial intel3 ligence and in the algorithms that support 

4 them, including with respect to the following: 

5 (i) The selection and processing of 

6 data used to train artificial intelligence. 

7 (ii) Diversity in the development of 

8 artificial intelligence. 

9 (iii) The ways and places the systems 

10 are deployed and the potential harmful 

11 outcomes. 

12 (F) Whether and how to incorporate eth13 ical standards in the development and imple14 mentation of artificial intelligence. 

15 (G) How the Federal Government can en16 courage technological progress in implementa17 tion of artificial intelligence that benefits the 

18 full spectrum of social and economic classes. 

19 (H) How the privacy rights of individuals 

20 are or will be affected by technological innova21 tion relating to artificial intelligence. 

22 (I) Whether technological advancements in 

23 artificial intelligence have or will outpace the 

24 legal and regulatory regimes implemented to 

25 protect consumers. 


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1 (J) How existing laws, including those con2 cerning data access and privacy, should be mod3 ernized to enable the potential of artificial intel4 ligence. 

5 (K) How the Federal Government utilizes 

6 artificial intelligence to handle large or complex 

7 data sets. 

8 (L) How ongoing dialogues and consulta9 tions with multi-stakeholder groups can maxi10 mize the potential of artificial intelligence and 

11 further development of artificial intelligence 

12 technologies that can benefit everyone inclu13 sively. 

14 (M) How the development of artificial in15 telligence can affect cost savings and streamline 

16 operations in various areas of government oper17 ations, including health care, cybersecurity, in18 frastructure, and disaster recovery. 

19 (N) Such other matters as the Advisory 

20 Committee considers appropriate. 

21 (3) REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.— 

22 (A) REPORT BY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 

23 Not later than 540 days after the date of the 

24 enactment of this Act, the Advisory Committee 

25 shall submit to the Chief Technology Officer 


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1 and to Congress a report on the findings of the 

2 Advisory Committee and such recommendations 

3 as the Advisory Committee may have for ad4 ministrative or legislative action relating to arti5 ficial intelligence. 

6 (B) RECOMMENDATIONS OF CHIEF TECH7 NOLOGY OFFICER.—Not later than 90 days 

8 after receiving the report submitted under sub9 paragraph (A), the Chief Technology Officer 

10 shall review the report and submit to Congress 

11 such recommendations as the Chief Technology 

12 Officer may have with respect to the matters 

13 contained in the report submitted under sub14 paragraph (A). 

15 (c) MEMBERSHIP.— 

16 (1) VOTING MEMBERS.— 

17 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Advisory Com18 mittee shall be composed of 19 voting members 

19 who shall be appointed by the Chief Technology 

20 Officer, with advisement from the Chair and 

21 Ranking Member of the Committee on Com22 merce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen23 ate and the Chair and Ranking Member of the 

24 Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 

25 of the House of Representatives, for purposes 


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1 of the Advisory Committee from among individ2 uals with expertise in matters relating to work3 force development, ethics, privacy, artificial in4 telligence, or computer science. 

5 (B) REPRESENTATION.—In carrying out 

6 subparagraph (A), the Chief Technology Officer 

7 shall ensure that voting members are appointed 

8 as follows: 

9 (i) Five members from the academic 

10 or research community. 

11 (ii) Six members from private indus12 try, at least 1 of whom shall be from a 

13 small business concern. 

14 (iii) Six members from civil society, at 

15 least 2 of whom shall be from groups that 

16 advocate for civil liberties or civil rights. 

17 (iv) Two members from labor organi18 zations or groups, including those that rep19 resent the unique interests of traditionally 

20 underrepresented populations. 

21 (C) GEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITY.—In car22 rying out subparagraph (A), the Chief Tech23 nology Officer shall ensure that the voting 

24 members of the Advisory Committee come from 


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1 diverse geographical locations within the United 

2 States. 

3 (2) NONVOTING MEMBERS.—The Advisory 

4 Committee shall also be composed of such nonvoting 

5 members as the Chief Technology Officer considers 

6 appropriate, except that the Chief Technology Offi7 cer shall appoint at least 1 such member from each 

8 of the following: 

9 (A) The Department of Education. 

10 (B) The Department of Justice. 

11 (C) The Department of Labor. 

12 (D) The Department of Transportation. 

13 (E) The Department of Homeland Secu14 rity. 

15 (F) The Federal Trade Commission. 

16 (G) The National Institute of Standards 

17 and Technology. 

18 (H) The National Science Foundation. 

19 (I) The National Science and Technology 

20 Council. 

21 (J) The National Science and Technology 

22 Council Committee on Artificial Intelligence. 

23 (K) The intelligence community (as de24 fined in section 3 of the National Security Act 

25 of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)). 


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1 (L) The Privacy and Civil Liberties Over2 sight Board. 

3 (M) Such other nonvoting members as the 

4 voting members of the Advisory Committee con5 sider appropriate. 

6 (3) CHAIRPERSON.—The Chief Technology Of7 ficer shall appoint a chairperson for the Advisory 

8 Committee from among the members appointed 

9 under paragraph (1). 

10 (d) MEETINGS.—The Advisory Committee shall 

11 meet— 

12 (1) in person no less frequently than twice each 

13 year; and 

14 (2) via telepresence no less frequently than once 

15 every 2 months. 

16 (e) SUBCOMMITTEE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

17 AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY.— 

18 (1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The chairperson of the 

19 Advisory Committee shall establish a subcommittee 

20 on matters relating to the development of artificial 

21 intelligence relating to law enforcement and security 

22 matters. 

23 (2) ADVICE.—The subcommittee shall provide 

24 advice to the Secretary on matters relating to the 

25 development of artificial intelligence relating to law 


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1 enforcement and security matters, including advice 

2 on the following: 

3 (A) Bias, including whether the use of fa4 cial recognition by government authorities, in5 cluding law enforcement agencies, is taking into 

6 account ethical considerations and addressing 

7 whether such use should be subject to addi8 tional oversight, controls, and limitations. 

9 (B) Security of data, including law en10 forcement’s access to data and the security pa11 rameters for that data. 

12 (C) Adoptability, including methods to 

13 allow the United States Government and indus14 try to take advantage of artificial intelligence 

15 technologies such as facial recognition tech16 nology while at the same time ensuring the po17 tential abuse of such technologies is sufficiently 

18 mitigated. 

19 (D) Legal standards, including whether 

20 technological advancements in artificial intel21 ligence have or will outpace the legal and regu22 latory regimes implemented to protect con23 sumers, including the tools, training, and re24 sources that could be used by government, in25 cluding law enforcement agencies, to adapt to 


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1 the use of artificial intelligence technologies in2 cluding facial recognition consistent with the 

3 privacy rights and civil liberties issues raised by 

4 the use of these technologies. 

5 (3) MEMBERSHIP.—The subcommittee shall be 

6 composed of 9 members selected by the chairperson 

7 as follows: 

8 (A) Three members from the law enforce9 ment community. 

10 (B) Two members from groups that advo11 cate for civil liberties or civil rights. 

12 (C) Two members from private industry. 

13 (D) Two members from the private secu14 rity community. 

15 (f) POWERS.—In order to carry out its duties under 

16 subsection (b), the Advisory Committee may— 

17 (1) hold such hearings, sit and act at such 

18 times and places, take such testimony, and receive 

19 such evidence as the Advisory Committee considers 

20 appropriate; 

21 (2) submit to Congress such recommendations 

22 as the Advisory Committee considers appropriate; 

23 (3) submit to Federal agencies such rec24 ommendations as the Advisory Committee considers 

25 appropriate; 


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1 (4) issue reports, guidelines, and memoranda; 

2 (5) hold or host conferences and symposia; 

3 (6) enter into cooperative agreements with 

4 third-party experts to obtain relevant advice or ex5 pertise, and oversee staff; 

6 (7) establish subcommittees; and 

7 (8) establish rules of procedure. 

8 (g) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—The members of the Advi9 sory Committee shall be allowed travel expenses, including 

10 per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized for em11 ployees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of 

12 title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes 

13 or regular places of business in the performance of services 

14 for the Advisory Committee. 

15 (h) FUNDING.— 

16 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para17 graph (2), amounts to carry out this section shall be 

18 derived from amounts appropriated or otherwise 

19 made available to the National Science Foundation. 

20 (2) DONATIONS.— 

21 (A) AUTHORIZATION.—The Advisory Com22 mittee may solicit and accept donations from 

23 private persons and non-Federal entities to 

24 carry out this section. 


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1 (B) LIMITATION.—Of the amounts ex2 pended by the Advisory Committee in a fiscal 

3 year to carry out this section, not more than 

4 half may be derived from amounts received 

5 under subparagraph (A). 

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