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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6909 
To direct the Director of National Intelligence to produce a National Intel-
ligence Estimate on artificial intelligence systems developed or deployed 
by entities in the People’s Republic of China. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 18, 2025 
Mr. VINDMAN (for himself and Mr. PFLUGER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
A BILL 
To direct the Director of National Intelligence to produce 
a National Intelligence Estimate on artificial intelligence 
systems developed or deployed by entities in the People’s 
Republic of China. 
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 ‘‘China AI Threat As-
sessment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Artificial intelligence systems developed by 
the People’s Republic of China may embed strategic, 
ideological, or discriminatory biases that reflect the 
political or military objectives of China. 
(2) A National Intelligence Estimate is needed 
to evaluate the risks these systems pose to United 
States national security and democratic institutions. 
SEC. 3. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON CHINESE 
AI SYSTEMS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
Intelligence shall submit to Congress a National Intel-
ligence Estimate on artificial intelligence systems devel-
oped or deployed by entities in the People’s Republic of 
China. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The National Intelligence Estimate 
required under subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) an evaluation of whether and to what extent 
China-developed commercial AI systems exhibit em-
bedded algorithmic bias, including targeting or dis-
criminatory logic based on ethnicity, religion, polit-
ical views, or nationality; 
(2) an analysis of the training data sources, 
model architectures, and intended use cases of such 
systems; 
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(3) an assessment of potential use of such AI 
systems for foreign influence operations, surveil-
lance, or information manipulation targeting the 
United States or its allies; 
(4) identification of risks posed by the global 
proliferation of these systems to democratic norms, 
civil liberties, and military decision-making; and 
(5) recommendations for how the intelligence 
community and United States allies should monitor, 
assess, and counter malign uses of Chinese AI tech-
nology. 
(c) COORDINATION.—In preparing the National In-
telligence Estimate under subsection (a), the Director 
shall coordinate with the heads of relevant elements of the 
intelligence community, including the Director of the Na-
tional Security Agency and the Director of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency. 
(d) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINED.—In this 
section, the terms ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ and ‘‘AI’’ mean 
any system, algorithm, software, or model, including those 
that are commercially available, that performs tasks re-
quiring human-like cognition, including perception, pre-
diction, autonomous decision-making, natural language 
understanding, or control of physical or digital systems. 
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