119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1736 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct 
annual assessments on threats to the United States 
posed by the use of generative artificial intelligence for 
terrorism, 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 ‘‘Generative AI Ter-
rorism Risk Assessment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE USE OF GEN-
ERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLI-
CATIONS FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITY. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the heightened terrorism threat landscape 
and the increasing utilization of generative artificial 
intelligence by foreign terrorist organizations rep-
resent a national security threat, and the challenges 
posed by such threat are not well understood; and 
(2) the Department of Homeland Security, in 
consultation with the Office of the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, must take steps to recognize, as-
sess, and address such threat, thereby reducing risks 
to the people of the United States. 
SEC. 3. ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS ON TERRORISM THREATS 
TO THE UNITED STATES POSED BY THE USE 
OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
FOR TERRORISM. 
(a) ASSESSMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and an-
nually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, in consultation with the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence, shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees an assessment of 
terrorism threats to the United States posed by the 
use of generative artificial intelligence for terrorism. 
(2) CONTENTS.—Each terrorism threat assess-
ment under paragraph (1) shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) An analysis of incidents during the im-
mediately preceding calendar year in which a 
foreign terrorist organization or individual has 
used or attempted to use generative artificial 
intelligence to carry out the following: 
(i) Spread violent extremist messaging 
and facilitate the ability to radicalize and 
recruit individuals to violence. 
(ii) Enhance their ability to develop or 
deploy chemical, biological, radiological, or 
nuclear weapons. 
(B) 
Recommendations 
on 
appropriate 
measures to counter terrorism threats to the 
United States posed by such terrorist organiza-
tion or individual. 
(3) COORDINATION.—Each terrorism threat as-
sessment under paragraph (1)—
(A) shall be coordinated by the Secretary 
of Homeland Security to ensure compliance 
with applicable law and protections relating to 
individuals’ privacy, civil rights, and civil lib-
erties, and 
(B) may be informed by existing products 
of the Department of Homeland Security, as 
appropriate. 
(4) FORM.—Each terrorism threat assessment 
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassi-
fied form, but may include a classified annex. The 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall post on a pub-
licly available website of the Department of Home-
land Security the unclassified portion of each such 
assessment. Each such unclassified portion shall not 
contain information that is designated as For Offi-
cial Use Only, or otherwise would not be publicly 
available pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United 
States Code (popularly referred to as the ‘‘Freedom 
of Information Act’’ (FOIA)), or other applicable 
law. 
(5) BRIEFING.—Not later than 30 days after 
the submission of each terrorism threat assessment 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity shall brief the appropriate congressional com-
mittees regarding each such assessment. The head 
of any other relevant Federal department or agency 
shall join the Secretary for any such briefing if any 
such committee, in consultation with the Secretary, 
determines such is appropriate. 
(b) INFORMATION SHARING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall review information relating to ter-
rorism threats to the United States posed by the use 
of generative artificial intelligence for terrorism that 
is gathered by State and major urban area fusion 
centers and the National Network of Fusion Cen-
ters, and incorporate such information, as appro-
priate, into the Department of Homeland Security’s 
own information relating to such. The Secretary 
shall ensure the dissemination to State and major 
urban area fusion centers and the National Network 
of Fusion Centers of such information. 
(2) COORDINATION.—In carrying out para-
graph (1), the entities specified in paragraph (3) 
shall share with the Secretary of Homeland Security 
information regarding terrorism threats to the 
United States posed by the use of generative artifi-
cial intelligence for terrorism.
(3) ENTITLES SPECIFIED.—The entities speci-
fied in this paragraph are the following: 
(A) The Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence. 
(B) The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(C) Members of the intelligence commu-
nity. 
(D) Any other relevant Federal depart-
ment or agency the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity determines necessary. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity, the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence, and the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation of the Senate. 
(2) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘‘ar-
tificial intelligence’’ has the meaning given such 
term in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intel-
ligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401).
(3) GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.— 
The term ‘‘generative artificial intelligence’’ means 
the class of artificial intelligence models that emu-
late the structure and characteristics of input data 
in order to generate derived synthetic content, in-
cluding images, videos, audio, text, and other digital 
content. 
(4) FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘terrorist organization’’ means any entity des-
ignated as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant 
to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 
(5) FUSION CENTER.—The term ‘‘fusion cen-
ter’’ has the meaning given such term in subsection 
(k) of section 210A of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h). 
(6) INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 3(4) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 
(7) NATIONAL
NETWORK
OF
FUSION
CEN-
TERS.—The term ‘‘National Network of Fusion Cen-
ters’’ means a decentralized arrangement of fusion 
centers intended to enhance the ability of individual 
State and local fusion centers to leverage the capa-
bilities and expertise of all such fusion centers for 
the purpose of enhancing analysis and homeland se-
curity information sharing nationally. 
(8) TERRORISM.—The term ‘‘terrorism’’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 2 of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101). 
Passed the House of Representatives November 19, 
2025. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1736 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
conduct annual assessments on threats to the 
United States posed by the use of generative ar-
tificial intelligence for terrorism, and for other 
purposes.