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(4) Effective research and development. 
(5) Ethics, reduced bias, fairness, and privacy. 
SEC. 2. GLOBAL LEADERSHIP. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the 
United States should take a global leadership role in artificial 
intelligence. 
SEC. 3. WORKFORCE PREPARATION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House of Representatives finds the 
following: 
(1) Artificial intelligence and automation will 
present significant challenges to workers in affected in-
dustries due to the automating of some routine and re-
petitive tasks, but will also create additional employment 
opportunities. 
(2) Closing the artificial intelligence talent gap in 
the short and medium-term will require a targeted ap-
proach to identifying and filling roles that require the 
skills to build and work with artificial intelligence sys-
tems. 
(3) The United States should take a leadership role 
in the artificial intelligence-driven economy by filling the 
artificial intelligence talent gap and preparing United 
States workers for the jobs of the future, including by 
prioritizing inclusivity and equal opportunity.
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(4) Departments and agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment are increasingly using data to administer bene-
fits, assess outcomes, and fulfill other mission-critical ac-
tivities. 
(5) Effectively creating, managing, and imple-
menting artificial intelligence related research and devel-
opment grants will require technical expertise. 
(6) Departments and agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment will need to be able to recruit employees with 
technical expertise. 
(7) Lifelong learning and skill acquisition can in-
crease flexibility with respect to career opportunities. 
(8) The United States will need to be able to at-
tract the best artificial intelligence researchers and com-
puter scientists from around the world to work in the 
United States. 
(b) MATTERS TO CONSIDER.— 
(1) EDUCATION.—It is the sense of the House of 
Representatives that the national competitiveness of the 
United States in artificial intelligence would benefit 
from— 
(A) increased funding for Federal programs 
that support science, technology, engineering, math-
ematics, and computer science education;
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(B) grant programs that continue funding the 
integration of ethics courses and modules into 
science, engineering, and computer science cur-
ricula; 
(C) new education programs of study related to 
artificial intelligence that incorporate industry-rec-
ognized credentials, including certifications and cer-
tificates, embedded within secondary and postsec-
ondary degree programs; and 
(D) continued support for teacher preparation 
programs that increase the number of teachers with 
the ability to teach science, technology, engineering, 
mathematics, and computer science education. 
(2) PROMOTING DIVERSITY.—It is the sense of the 
House of Representatives that— 
(A) the inclusion of students from historically 
under-represented groups in existing technology 
education programs would benefit a diverse artifi-
cial intelligence workforce; and 
(B) recruitment and retention policies with re-
spect 
to 
under-represented 
communities 
and 
marginalized groups in the Federal workforce 
should be reviewed for the purpose of determining 
if such policies require modification for technology 
workers.
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(3) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—It is the sense of the House 
of Representatives that the Federal Government 
should assess the effectiveness of current public 
workforce development programs with respect to the 
additional support such programs will need to effec-
tively address job disruptions and job creations that 
result from the increased use of artificial intel-
ligence. 
(B) WORK-BASED LEARNING AND ON-THE-JOB 
TRAINING PROGRAMS.—It is the sense of the House 
of Representatives that the Federal Government 
should support the adoption of work-based learning 
and on-the-job training programs to prepare the 
United States workforce for an artificial intel-
ligence-influenced economy, including by— 
(i) undertaking studies to determine best 
practices to implement such programs; and 
(ii) ensuring that there is sufficient Fed-
eral funding to support high-quality programs 
that coordinate with Federal workforce devel-
opment programs. 
(4) FEDERAL HIRING PRACTICES.—It is the sense 
of the House of Representatives that the Federal Gov-
ernment should—
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(A) allow technical experts to use their skills to 
assist multiple departments and agencies of the 
Federal Government, such as the United States 
Digital Service; 
(B) focus on the retention of non-partisan ex-
perts within the Federal Government who are work-
ing to modernize Federal information technology; 
(C) include in the criteria for recruiting for ar-
tificial intelligence jobs the consideration of a multi- 
disciplinary set of skills, including an understanding 
of ethical practices with respect to the design and 
use of artificial intelligence systems, privacy, infor-
mation security, law, and civil liberties; 
(D) review hiring practices for employment in 
the Federal Government for the purpose of ensuring 
that such practices do not disqualify individuals 
with a less traditional background, including due to 
a lack of undergraduate or graduate degree attain-
ment, who have skills that will benefit work in arti-
ficial intelligence systems management and research 
and development; and 
(E) conduct studies with respect to best prac-
tices for skills-based hiring.
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puting power required for artificial intelligence training 
runs is increasing exponentially. 
(6) A new wave of technological advances could be 
fostered by combining and increasing access to govern-
ment-owned and government-funded computing and data 
resources. 
(7) Expanding access to digital infrastructure, such 
as broadband, will be essential to creating new job op-
portunities and stimulating the growth of new technology 
and innovation clusters to support United States leader-
ship in artificial intelligence. 
(8) Incentivizing research and development across 
the private sector, particularly from smaller companies, 
will further strengthen the United States innovation eco-
system. 
(9) The United States is an attractive research and 
development partner because it is home to world-class 
universities, research institutes, and corporations. 
(10) Decades of experience show that joint work 
with foreign researchers can be done with great benefit 
and little detriment to United States economic and na-
tional security with the implementation of proper safe-
guards. 
(11) Artificial intelligence standards and measure-
ment are essential to fostering artificial intelligence tech-
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nologies that are safe, secure, reliable, and comport with 
the norms and values of the United States. 
(12) Metrics are how the artificial intelligence re-
search community guides itself and prioritizes research. 
(13) Benchmark tests are necessary to understand 
the performance of an artificial intelligence system. 
(14) Current tests for measuring artificial intel-
ligence range from vague and conceptual to well-defined 
and mature. 
(15) Artificial intelligence measurement methodolo-
gies are not static and will require periodic reexamina-
tions and updates of testing methodologies to ensure 
that artificial intelligence systems are functioning ac-
cording to best-known practices. 
(16) United States leadership in global artificial in-
telligence standards-setting will help ensure that artifi-
cial intelligence implementations are in accordance with 
United States strengths and comport with the interests 
and values of the United States. 
(17) Public engagement is necessary for developing 
voluntary consensus standards, guidelines, and frame-
works to ensure diverse perspectives are considered. 
(b) MATTERS TO CONSIDER.— 
(1) FEDERAL
FUNDING.—It is the sense of the 
House of Representatives that the Federal Government
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should increase investments in artificial intelligence re-
search and development and related fields. 
(2) COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ENTITIES.—It is 
the sense of the House of Representatives that depart-
ments and agencies of the Federal Government should 
collaborate— 
(A) with the private sector, civil society, and 
academia— 
(i) to ensure that the United States inno-
vation ecosystem leads the world in artificial 
intelligence research and development; and 
(ii) to develop voluntary consensus stand-
ards, guidelines, and frameworks that will help 
create shared conceptual foundations, termi-
nology, and best practices for artificial intel-
ligence fairness and bias mitigation; and 
(B) with science funding organizations in like- 
minded countries to establish multilateral teams of 
artificial intelligence researchers from the public 
and private sectors to promote additional talent de-
velopment and foster partnerships on artificial intel-
ligence research and development. 
(3) EXPANDING DIGITAL ACCESS.—It is the sense 
of the House of Representatives that the Federal Gov-
ernment should—
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(A) expand access to broadband in rural and 
underserved areas; 
(B) expand the availability of affordable graph-
ics processing units and high-performance com-
puters in rural and underserved areas; 
(C) improve digital infrastructure in the 
United States; and 
(D) make data created by federally-funded sci-
entific and technical research publicly available with 
appropriate privacy protections to provide artificial 
intelligence researchers with new data sets to train 
their systems. 
(4) NATIONAL COMPUTING AND DATA RESOURCE.— 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that Con-
gress should consider establishing a national computing 
and data resource. 
(5) ACCESS
TO
NATIONAL
LABORATORIES.—It is 
the sense of the House of Representatives that the exist-
ing supercomputing labs at the national laboratories and 
technology centers of the Department of Energy should 
expand opportunities for academics and researchers to 
access such labs for artificial intelligence research and 
research related to artificial intelligence. 
(6) TAX INCENTIVES.—It is the sense of the House 
of Representatives that Congress should examine wheth-
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er targeted incentives and reforms to the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 would increase private sector re-
search and development, particularly with respect to 
small cap corporations. 
SEC. 6. ETHICS, REDUCED BIAS, FAIRNESS, AND PRIVACY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House of Representatives finds the 
following: 
(1) The rise of artificial intelligence has great po-
tential to improve quality of life for individuals in the 
United States, provided it is developed and used in a 
manner that is ethical, reduces bias, promotes fairness, 
and protects privacy. 
(2) A diverse artificial intelligence workforce is im-
portant for mitigating bias. 
(3) The United States is uniquely positioned to le-
verage its diverse workforce to lead in artificial intel-
ligence. 
(4) The starting point for Federal oversight of arti-
ficial intelligence should be to review existing regulatory 
frameworks. 
(5) Regulatory sandboxes, in general, refer to regu-
latory structures where a participant obtains limited or 
temporary access to a market in exchange for reduced 
regulatory uncertainty, and can be used to test a prod-
uct designed to mitigate unintended bias or promote
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fairness in a small-scale environment and under the su-
pervision of regulators. 
(6) Federal programs should have necessary safe-
guards and oversight processes. 
(7) Artificial intelligence regulatory approaches 
should consider the level of risk associated with different 
artificial intelligence applications. 
(b) MATTERS TO CONSIDER.— 
(1) BIAS MITIGATION.—It is the sense of the House 
of Representatives that departments and agencies of the 
Federal Government should— 
(A) support technical and non-technical re-
search and development to address potential bias, 
fairness, and privacy issues in artificial intelligence; 
(B) improve access to a broad range of non- 
sensitive government data assets to help train artifi-
cial intelligence systems; 
(C) implement title II of the Foundations for 
Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Public 
Law 115–435; 132 Stat. 5529); 
(D) develop policies to identify the data used 
to train artificial intelligence algorithms as well as 
data analyzed by artificial intelligence algorithms 
and systems in use by departments and agencies; 
and
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(E) further develop and release to the public 
available benchmark data assets with the proper 
safeguards to protect privacy, mitigate bias, and 
promote inclusivity. 
(2) REGULATION AND LEGISLATION REVIEW.—It is 
the sense of the House of Representatives that congres-
sional committees should— 
(A) review the range of existing Federal regu-
lations and laws that potentially apply to artificial 
intelligence; 
(B) determine which laws apply to artificial in-
telligence; 
(C) determine if any gaps in appropriate legis-
lation and regulation exist and how such gaps could 
be addressed; 
(D) advance Federal privacy reforms that build 
trust, prevent harm, and maintain United States 
global leadership in artificial intelligence; and 
(E) conduct regular oversight of artificial intel-
ligence policies in the executive branch within their 
jurisdiction. 
(3) FEDERAL
FUNDING.—It is the sense of the 
House of Representatives that Congress should support 
funding for departments and agencies of the Federal 
Government interested in adopting programs, including
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regulatory sandboxes, for the purposes of testing artifi-
cial intelligence tools in limited markets. 
Attest: 
Clerk.