I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5532 
To authorize the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish 
prize competitions related to deep fake detection technology. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 19, 2019 
Ms. WEXTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
A BILL 
To authorize the Director of the National Science Founda-
tion to establish prize competitions related to deep fake 
detection technology. 
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 ‘‘Deep Fake Detection 
Prize Competition Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Prize competitions have been used through-
out America’s history, dating back to the designing 
of the United States Capitol Building in 1792. 
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(2) The America COMPETES Reauthorization 
Act granted authority for Federal agencies to carry 
out prize competitions in order to stimulate innova-
tion to advance each agency’s mission. 
(3) Prize competitions provide a benefit to the 
American people by providing a high reward return 
on taxpayer dollars. 
(4) Since 2010, Federal agencies have con-
ducted nearly 1,000 prize competitions to help ad-
dress some of our Nation’s greatest challenges. 
(5) Prize competitions at the National Science 
Foundation have helped to spark further research on 
important and emerging topics within data science, 
engineering, astrophysics, biology, and other areas. 
(6) Artificial Intelligence and machine learning 
(AI/ML) are rapidly being developed for deployment 
across all sectors creating a demand for new innova-
tion from researchers and developers in order to ad-
dress technological and social challenges from AI/ 
ML. 
(7) AI/ML technologies are currently being 
used to create sophisticated deep fake videos, im-
ages, and audio, digital content that is manipulated 
in order to spread false information which can lead 
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to a degradation of public trust and national secu-
rity concerns. 
(8) As deep fake technology continues to ad-
vance, its detection will become increasingly difficult 
without new tools for digital forensics. 
(9) Although other Federal agencies are cur-
rently involved in supporting and conducting re-
search into deep fake detection technology in the 
context of national security, research spurred by 
prize competitions at the National Science Founda-
tion can have broader benefits for the American 
public. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIZE COMPETITION. 
The Director of the National Science Foundation 
shall carry out prize competitions pursuant to section 24 
of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 
1980 (15 U.S.C. 3719) to incentivize research into tech-
nology that advances detection of deep fake audio, images, 
and video. The Director shall consider conducting subse-
quent or recurring competitions to account for changing 
and advancing technologies. 
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