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-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fundamentally Under-
standing The Usability and Realistic Evolution of Artifi-
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cial Intelligence Act of 2020’’ or the ‘‘FUTURE of Artifi-
cial Intelligence Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) understanding and preparing for the ongo-
ing development of artificial intelligence is critical to 
the economic prosperity and social stability of the 
United States; 
(2) as artificial intelligence evolves, it can great-
ly benefit society by powering the information econ-
omy, fostering better informed decisions and helping 
unlock answers to questions that, as of the date of 
the enactment of this Act, are unanswerable; 
(3) for the reasons set forth in paragraph (2), 
it is beneficial to better understand artificial intel-
ligence and foster the development of artificial intel-
ligence in a manner that maximizes its benefit to so-
ciety; and 
(4) it is critical that the priorities of the advi-
sory committee established under section 3(a)(1) in-
clude developing guidance or recommendations— 
(A) to promote a climate of investment and 
innovation to ensure the global competitiveness 
of the United States; 
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(B) to optimize the development of artifi-
cial intelligence to address the potential growth, 
restructuring, or other changes in the United 
States workforce that result from the develop-
ment of artificial intelligence, with particular 
attention to traditionally underrepresented pop-
ulations that may be uniquely impacted; 
(C) to promote and support the unbiased 
development and application of artificial intel-
ligence; and 
(D) to protect the privacy rights of individ-
uals. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COM-
MITTEE ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLE-
MENTATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Chief Technology Offi-
cer shall establish a Federal advisory committee to 
advise the President on matters relating to the de-
velopment of artificial intelligence. 
(2) DESIGNATION.—The Federal advisory com-
mittee established under paragraph (1) shall be 
known as the ‘‘Federal Advisory Committee on the 
Development and Implementation of Artificial Intel-
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ligence’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Advisory 
Committee’’). 
(b) PURPOSES OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 
(1) ADVICE.—The Advisory Committee shall 
provide advice to the Chief Technology Officer on 
matters relating to the development and use of arti-
ficial general intelligence and narrow artificial intel-
ligence, including on the following as they relate to 
artificial intelligence: 
(A) The competitiveness of the United 
States, including matters relating to the pro-
motion of public and private sector investment 
and innovation into the development of artificial 
intelligence. 
(B) Workforce, including matters relating 
to the potential for using artificial intelligence 
for rapid retraining of workers, due to the pos-
sible effect of technological displacement and to 
increase the labor force participation of tradi-
tionally underrepresented populations, including 
minorities, low-income populations, and persons 
with disabilities. 
(C) Education, including matters relating 
to science, technology, engineering, and mathe-
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matics education to prepare the United States 
workforce as the needs of employers change. 
(D) Ethics training and development for 
individuals, including both private and govern-
ment technologists, working on and using artifi-
cial intelligence. 
(E) Matters relating to open sharing of 
data and the open sharing of research on artifi-
cial intelligence. 
(F) International cooperation and competi-
tiveness, including matters relating to the com-
petitive international landscape for artificial in-
telligence-related industries. 
(G) Accountability and legal rights, includ-
ing matters relating to the responsibility for 
any violations of laws by an artificial intel-
ligence system and the compatibility of inter-
national regulations. 
(H) Matters relating to machine learning 
bias through core cultural and societal norms. 
(I) Matters relating to how artificial intel-
ligence can serve or enhance opportunities in 
rural communities. 
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(J) Government efficiency, including mat-
ters relating to how to promote cost saving and 
streamline operations. 
(K) Matters relating to individual civil 
rights, including an assessment regarding how 
rights are or will be affected by the use of arti-
ficial intelligence technology and whether such 
uses should be subject to additional controls, 
oversight, or limitations. 
(L) Matters relating to urbanization and 
the development of smart cities. 
(2) STUDY.—The Advisory Committee shall 
study and assess the following: 
(A) How the term ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ 
should be defined for purposes of this section 
and how the relevant scope of the Advisory 
Committee should be defined, including how 
such definitions relate to artificial systems and 
both narrow and general forms of artificial in-
telligence. In carrying out this subparagraph, 
the Advisory Committee shall consider the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘artificial intelligence’ includes 
the following: 
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‘‘(A) Any artificial systems that perform 
tasks under varying and unpredictable cir-
cumstances, without significant human over-
sight, or that can learn from their experience 
and improve their performance. Such systems 
may be developed in computer software, phys-
ical hardware, or other contexts not yet con-
templated. They may solve tasks requiring 
human-like perception, cognition, planning, 
learning, communication, or physical action. In 
general, the more human-like the system within 
the context of its tasks, the more it can be said 
to use artificial intelligence. 
‘‘(B) Systems that think like humans, such 
as cognitive architectures and neural networks. 
‘‘(C) Systems that act like humans, such 
as systems that can pass the Turing test or 
other comparable test via natural language 
processing, knowledge representation, auto-
mated reasoning, and learning. 
‘‘(D) A set of techniques, including ma-
chine learning, that seek to approximate some 
cognitive task. 
‘‘(E) Systems that act rationally, such as 
intelligent software agents and embodied robots 
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that achieve goals via perception, planning, rea-
soning, learning, communicating, decision mak-
ing, and acting. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘artificial general intelligence’ 
means a notional future artificial intelligence system 
that exhibits apparently intelligent behavior at least 
as advanced as a person across the range of cog-
nitive, emotional, and social behaviors. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘narrow artificial intelligence’ 
means an artificial intelligence system that address-
es specific application areas such as playing stra-
tegic games, language translation, self-driving vehi-
cles, and facial or other image recognition.’’. 
(B) How to create a climate for public and 
private sector investment and innovation in ar-
tificial intelligence. 
(C) The possible benefits and effects that 
the development of artificial intelligence may 
have on the economy, workforce, and competi-
tiveness of the United States. 
(D) Whether and how networked, auto-
mated, artificial intelligence applications and 
robotic devices will displace or create jobs and 
how any job-related gains relating to artificial 
intelligence can be maximized. 
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(E) How bias can be identified and elimi-
nated in the development of artificial intel-
ligence and in the algorithms that support 
them, including with respect to the following: 
(i) The selection and processing of 
data used to train artificial intelligence. 
(ii) Diversity in the development of 
artificial intelligence. 
(iii) The ways and places the systems 
are deployed and the potential harmful 
outcomes. 
(F) Whether and how to incorporate eth-
ical standards in the development and imple-
mentation of artificial intelligence. 
(G) How the Federal Government can en-
courage technological progress in implementa-
tion of artificial intelligence that benefits the 
full spectrum of social and economic classes. 
(H) How the privacy rights of individuals 
are or will be affected by technological innova-
tion relating to artificial intelligence. 
(I) Whether technological advancements in 
artificial intelligence have or will outpace the 
legal and regulatory regimes implemented to 
protect consumers. 
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(J) How existing laws, including those con-
cerning data access and privacy, should be mod-
ernized to enable the potential of artificial intel-
ligence. 
(K) How the Federal Government utilizes 
artificial intelligence to handle large or complex 
data sets. 
(L) How ongoing dialogues and consulta-
tions with multi-stakeholder groups can maxi-
mize the potential of artificial intelligence and 
further development of artificial intelligence 
technologies that can benefit everyone inclu-
sively. 
(M) How the development of artificial in-
telligence can affect cost savings and streamline 
operations in various areas of government oper-
ations, including health care, cybersecurity, in-
frastructure, and disaster recovery. 
(N) Such other matters as the Advisory 
Committee considers appropriate. 
(3) REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.— 
(A) REPORT BY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 
Not later than 540 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Advisory Committee 
shall submit to the Chief Technology Officer 
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and to Congress a report on the findings of the 
Advisory Committee and such recommendations 
as the Advisory Committee may have for ad-
ministrative or legislative action relating to arti-
ficial intelligence. 
(B) RECOMMENDATIONS OF CHIEF TECH-
NOLOGY
OFFICER.—Not later than 90 days 
after receiving the report submitted under sub-
paragraph (A), the Chief Technology Officer 
shall review the report and submit to Congress 
such recommendations as the Chief Technology 
Officer may have with respect to the matters 
contained in the report submitted under sub-
paragraph (A). 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) VOTING MEMBERS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall be composed of 19 voting members 
who shall be appointed by the Chief Technology 
Officer, with advisement from the Chair and 
Ranking Member of the Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen-
ate and the Chair and Ranking Member of the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
of the House of Representatives, for purposes 
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of the Advisory Committee from among individ-
uals with expertise in matters relating to work-
force development, ethics, privacy, artificial in-
telligence, or computer science. 
(B) REPRESENTATION.—In carrying out 
subparagraph (A), the Chief Technology Officer 
shall ensure that voting members are appointed 
as follows: 
(i) Five members from the academic 
or research community. 
(ii) Six members from private indus-
try, at least 1 of whom shall be from a 
small business concern. 
(iii) Six members from civil society, at 
least 2 of whom shall be from groups that 
advocate for civil liberties or civil rights. 
(iv) Two members from labor organi-
zations or groups, including those that rep-
resent the unique interests of traditionally 
underrepresented populations. 
(C) GEOGRAPHICAL
DIVERSITY.—In car-
rying out subparagraph (A), the Chief Tech-
nology Officer shall ensure that the voting 
members of the Advisory Committee come from 
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diverse geographical locations within the United 
States. 
(2) 
NONVOTING
MEMBERS.—The 
Advisory 
Committee shall also be composed of such nonvoting 
members as the Chief Technology Officer considers 
appropriate, except that the Chief Technology Offi-
cer shall appoint at least 1 such member from each 
of the following: 
(A) The Department of Education. 
(B) The Department of Justice. 
(C) The Department of Labor. 
(D) The Department of Transportation. 
(E) The Department of Homeland Secu-
rity. 
(F) The Federal Trade Commission. 
(G) The National Institute of Standards 
and Technology. 
(H) The National Science Foundation. 
(I) The National Science and Technology 
Council. 
(J) The National Science and Technology 
Council Committee on Artificial Intelligence. 
(K) The intelligence community (as de-
fined in section 3 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)). 
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(L) The Privacy and Civil Liberties Over-
sight Board. 
(M) Such other nonvoting members as the 
voting members of the Advisory Committee con-
sider appropriate. 
(3) CHAIRPERSON.—The Chief Technology Of-
ficer shall appoint a chairperson for the Advisory 
Committee from among the members appointed 
under paragraph (1). 
(d) MEETINGS.—The Advisory Committee shall 
meet— 
(1) in person no less frequently than twice each 
year; and 
(2) via telepresence no less frequently than once 
every 2 months. 
(e) SUBCOMMITTEE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The chairperson of the 
Advisory Committee shall establish a subcommittee 
on matters relating to the development of artificial 
intelligence relating to law enforcement and security 
matters. 
(2) ADVICE.—The subcommittee shall provide 
advice to the Secretary on matters relating to the 
development of artificial intelligence relating to law 
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enforcement and security matters, including advice 
on the following: 
(A) Bias, including whether the use of fa-
cial recognition by government authorities, in-
cluding law enforcement agencies, is taking into 
account ethical considerations and addressing 
whether such use should be subject to addi-
tional oversight, controls, and limitations. 
(B) Security of data, including law en-
forcement’s access to data and the security pa-
rameters for that data. 
(C) Adoptability, including methods to 
allow the United States Government and indus-
try to take advantage of artificial intelligence 
technologies such as facial recognition tech-
nology while at the same time ensuring the po-
tential abuse of such technologies is sufficiently 
mitigated. 
(D) Legal standards, including whether 
technological advancements in artificial intel-
ligence have or will outpace the legal and regu-
latory regimes implemented to protect con-
sumers, including the tools, training, and re-
sources that could be used by government, in-
cluding law enforcement agencies, to adapt to 
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the use of artificial intelligence technologies in-
cluding facial recognition consistent with the 
privacy rights and civil liberties issues raised by 
the use of these technologies. 
(3) MEMBERSHIP.—The subcommittee shall be 
composed of 9 members selected by the chairperson 
as follows: 
(A) Three members from the law enforce-
ment community. 
(B) Two members from groups that advo-
cate for civil liberties or civil rights. 
(C) Two members from private industry. 
(D) Two members from the private secu-
rity community. 
(f) POWERS.—In order to carry out its duties under 
subsection (b), the Advisory Committee may— 
(1) hold such hearings, sit and act at such 
times and places, take such testimony, and receive 
such evidence as the Advisory Committee considers 
appropriate; 
(2) submit to Congress such recommendations 
as the Advisory Committee considers appropriate; 
(3) submit to Federal agencies such rec-
ommendations as the Advisory Committee considers 
appropriate; 
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(4) issue reports, guidelines, and memoranda; 
(5) hold or host conferences and symposia; 
(6) enter into cooperative agreements with 
third-party experts to obtain relevant advice or ex-
pertise, and oversee staff; 
(7) establish subcommittees; and 
(8) establish rules of procedure. 
(g) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—The members of the Advi-
sory Committee shall be allowed travel expenses, including 
per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized for em-
ployees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of 
title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes 
or regular places of business in the performance of services 
for the Advisory Committee. 
(h) FUNDING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), amounts to carry out this section shall be 
derived from amounts appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the National Science Foundation. 
(2) DONATIONS.— 
(A) AUTHORIZATION.—The Advisory Com-
mittee may solicit and accept donations from 
private persons and non-Federal entities to 
carry out this section. 
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(B) LIMITATION.—Of the amounts ex-
pended by the Advisory Committee in a fiscal 
year to carry out this section, not more than 
half may be derived from amounts received 
under subparagraph (A). 
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