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cies of the Federal Government, such as the 
United States Digital Service; 
(B) focus on the retention of non-partisan 
experts within the Federal Government who are 
working to modernize Federal information tech-
nology; 
(C) include in the criteria for recruiting for 
artificial intelligence jobs the consideration of a 
multi-disciplinary set of skills, including an un-
derstanding of ethical practices with respect to 
the design and use of artificial intelligence sys-
tems, privacy, information 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 attainment, who have skills 
that will benefit work in artificial intelligence 
systems management and research and develop-
ment; and 
(E) conduct studies with respect to best 
practices for skills-based hiring. 
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SEC. 4. NATIONAL SECURITY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House of Representatives finds 
the following: 
(1) Artificial intelligence will have immense im-
plications for national and international security. 
(2) Artificial intelligence tools and systems can 
augment human intelligence through human-ma-
chine collaboration and teaming across the national 
security ecosystem. 
(3) Ensuring that the public trusts the ability 
of the military to ethically use artificial intelligence 
and that human operators in human-machine teams 
trust the artificial intelligence will be critical factors 
with respect to the successful implementation of ar-
tificial intelligence systems. 
(4) The continued proliferation of national arti-
ficial intelligence strategies, plans, statements, and 
investments demonstrates the increase in global 
competition in this area. 
(5) New paradigms will be required to effec-
tively test artificial intelligence and to ensure that it 
is reliable and stable. 
(6) Export and investment controls will be im-
portant policy tools to prevent the acquisition of sen-
sitive artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence- 
enabling technologies, including hardware such as 
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semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing 
equipment, by China, Russia, and other adversaries. 
(b) MATTERS TO CONSIDER.— 
(1) 
COLLABORATION
WITH
FOREIGN
NA-
TIONS.—It is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that the United States should— 
(A) leverage its alliances to promote demo-
cratic principles, foster research collaboration, 
and develop common standards with respect to 
artificial intelligence; 
(B) promote the interoperability of artifi-
cial intelligence for the purpose of strength-
ening alliances; 
(C) along with allies, take a leading role in 
international forums to set artificial intelligence 
principles, norms, and standards; and 
(D) undertake efforts to engage with 
China and Russia with respect to— 
(i) shared concerns about artificial in-
telligence safety; and 
(ii) confidence-building by establishing 
crisis communications procedures designed 
to reduce the likelihood of unintentional 
use and the risk of escalation with respect 
to artificial intelligence systems. 
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(2) FOREIGN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAPA-
BILITY.—It is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that national security agencies should consider 
conditions-based and capabilities-based approaches 
when evaluating global artificial intelligence capabili-
ties. 
(3) DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT.—It is 
the sense of the House of Representatives that na-
tional security agencies should— 
(A) collaborate with experts in academia, 
the private sector, and other departments and 
agencies of the Federal Government to develop 
best practices for testing, evaluation, validation, 
and verification of artificial intelligence sys-
tems; 
(B) devote agency resources, including in-
vesting in research, for the purpose of pro-
moting trustworthiness with respect to human- 
machine teams; 
(C) engage with experts to develop guide-
lines for the ethical development and use of ar-
tificial intelligence systems; and 
(D) prioritize the development of artificial 
intelligence systems to cover non-critical tasks 
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until such systems can achieve suitable stand-
ards of reliability, interoperability, and security. 
(4) EXPORT AND INVESTMENT CONTROLS.—It 
is the sense of the House of Representatives that the 
United States should collaborate with its allies to 
prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence systems 
by China, Russia, and other adversaries. 
SEC. 5. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House of Representatives finds 
the following: 
(1) Federal funding plays an important role in 
research and development. 
(2) Federal research and development invest-
ments need to be significantly increased to ensure 
United States leadership in artificial intelligence. 
(3) Federally supported research will play an 
important role in supporting artificial intelligence 
techniques that are critical to United States artifi-
cial intelligence leadership, including by exploring 
novel techniques that leverage smaller data sets to 
train artificial intelligence systems and making more 
efficient use of computing resources. 
(4) Artificial intelligence advances are enabled 
by Federal research and development investments in 
other technology sectors because United States eco-
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nomic competitiveness and national security will de-
pend on strong capabilities across a range of tech-
nologies. 
(5) Computing power is essential to progress in 
artificial intelligence development, and the amount 
of computing power required for artificial intel-
ligence training runs is increasing exponentially. 
(6) A new wave of technological advances could 
be fostered by combining and increasing access to 
government-owned and government-funded com-
puting and data resources. 
(7) Expanding access to digital infrastructure, 
such as broadband, will be essential to creating new 
job opportunities and stimulating the growth of new 
technology and innovation clusters to support United 
States leadership in artificial intelligence. 
(8) Incentivizing research and development 
across the private sector, particularly from smaller 
companies, will further strengthen the United States 
innovation ecosystem. 
(9) The United States is an attractive research 
and development partner because it is home to 
world-class universities, research institutes, and cor-
porations. 
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(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 national security with the implementa-
tion of proper safeguards. 
(11) Artificial intelligence standards and meas-
urement are essential to fostering artificial intel-
ligence technologies that are safe, secure, reliable, 
and comport with the norms and values of the 
United States. 
(12) Metrics are how the artificial intelligence 
research community guides itself and prioritizes re-
search. 
(13) Benchmark tests are necessary to under-
stand the performance of an artificial intelligence 
system. 
(14) Current tests for measuring artificial intel-
ligence range from vague and conceptual to well-de-
fined and mature. 
(15) Artificial intelligence measurement meth-
odologies are not static and will require periodic re-
examinations and updates of testing methodologies 
to ensure that artificial intelligence systems are 
functioning according to best-known practices. 
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(16) United States leadership in global artificial 
intelligence standards-setting will help ensure that 
artificial intelligence implementations are in accord-
ance with United States strengths and comport with 
the interests and values of the United States. 
(17) Public engagement is necessary for devel-
oping voluntary consensus standards, guidelines, and 
frameworks to ensure diverse perspectives are con-
sidered. 
(b) MATTERS TO CONSIDER.— 
(1) FEDERAL FUNDING.—It is the sense of the 
House of Representatives that the Federal Govern-
ment should increase investments in artificial intel-
ligence research and development and related fields. 
(2) COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ENTITIES.— 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
departments and agencies of the Federal Govern-
ment should collaborate— 
(A) with the private sector, civil society, 
and academia— 
(i) to ensure that the United States 
innovation ecosystem leads the world in ar-
tificial intelligence research and develop-
ment; and 
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(ii) to develop voluntary consensus 
standards, guidelines, and frameworks that 
will help create shared conceptual founda-
tions, terminology, and best practices for 
artificial intelligence fairness and bias miti-
gation; 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 addi-
tional talent development and foster partner-
ships on artificial intelligence research and de-
velopment. 
(3) EXPANDING
DIGITAL
ACCESS.—It is the 
sense of the House of Representatives that the Fed-
eral Government should— 
(A) expand access to broadband in rural 
and underserved areas; 
(B) expand the availability of affordable 
graphics processing units and high-performance 
computers in rural and underserved areas; 
(C) improve digital infrastructure in the 
United States; and 
(D) make data created by federally funded 
scientific and technical research publicly avail-
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able with appropriate privacy protections to 
provide artificial intelligence researchers with 
new data sets to train their systems. 
(4) NATIONAL
COMPUTING
AND
DATA
RE-
SOURCE.—It is the sense of the House of Represent-
atives that Congress 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 
existing supercomputing labs at the national labora-
tories and technology centers of the Department of 
Energy should expand opportunities for academics 
and researchers to access such labs for artificial in-
telligence research and research related to artificial 
intelligence. 
(6) TAX INCENTIVES.—It is the sense of the 
House of Representatives that Congress should ex-
amine whether targeted incentives and reforms to 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 would increase 
private sector research 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: 
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(1) The rise of artificial intelligence has great 
potential 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 
important for mitigating bias. 
(3) The United States is uniquely positioned to 
leverage its diverse workforce to lead in artificial in-
telligence. 
(4) The starting point for Federal oversight of 
artificial intelligence should be to review existing 
regulatory frameworks. 
(5) Regulatory sandboxes, in general, refer to 
regulatory 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 product designed to mitigate unintended 
bias or promote fairness in a small-scale environ-
ment and under the supervision of regulators. 
(6) Federal programs should have necessary 
safeguards and oversight processes. 
(7) Artificial intelligence regulatory approaches 
should consider the level of risk associated with dif-
ferent artificial intelligence applications. 
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