I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6216 
To establish the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 12, 2020 
Ms. JOHNSON of Texas (for herself, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. OLSON, 
Mr. LIPINSKI, and Mr. WEBER of Texas) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
A BILL 
To establish the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative, 
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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE 
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Sec. 101. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative. 
Sec. 102. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office. 
Sec. 103. Coordination by Interagency Committee. 
Sec. 104. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee. 
Sec. 105. National Academies artificial intelligence impact study on workforce. 
Sec. 106. GAO report on computational needs. 
TITLE II—NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH 
INSTITUTES 
Sec. 201. National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. 
TITLE III—NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND 
TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 301. National Institute of Standards and Technology activities. 
TITLE IV—NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARTIFICIAL 
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 401. Artificial intelligence research and education. 
TITLE V—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
RESEARCH PROGRAM 
Sec. 501. Department of Energy Artificial Intelligence Research Program. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Artificial intelligence is a tool that has the 
potential to change and possibly transform every 
sector of the United States economy and society. 
(2) The Federal Government should continue to 
play an important role advancing research, develop-
ment, standards, and education activities in artificial 
intelligence through coordination and collaboration 
between government, academia, and the private sec-
tor to leverage the intellectual, physical, and digital 
resources of each stakeholder. 
(3) The Federal Government lacks clear under-
standing of the capabilities of artificial intelligence 
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and its potential to affect various social and eco-
nomic sectors, including ethical concerns, national 
security implications, and workforce impacts. 
(4) Researchers from academia, Federal labora-
tories, and much of the private sector have limited 
access to many high-quality datasets, computing re-
sources, or real-world testing environments to design 
and deploy safe and trustworthy artificial intel-
ligence systems. 
(5) There is a lack of standards and 
benchmarking for artificial intelligence systems that 
academia and the public and private sectors can use 
to evaluate the performance of these systems before 
and after deployment. 
(6) Artificial intelligence is increasingly becom-
ing a highly interdisciplinary field with expertise re-
quired from a diverse range of scientific and other 
scholarly disciplines that traditionally work inde-
pendently and continue to face cultural and institu-
tional barriers to large scale collaboration. 
(7) Current Federal investments and funding 
mechanisms are largely insufficient to incentivize 
and support the large-scale interdisciplinary and 
public-private collaborations that will be required to 
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advance trustworthy artificial intelligence systems in 
the United States. 
(8) The United States education pipeline for ar-
tificial intelligence fields faces significant challenges. 
Not only does the artificial intelligence research field 
lack the gender and racial diversity of the American 
population as a whole, but it is failing to both retain 
researchers and adequately support educators to 
meet the demands of the next generation of students 
studying artificial intelligence. 
(9) In order to help drive forward advances in 
trustworthy artificial intelligence across all sectors 
and to the benefit of all Americans, the Federal 
Government must provide sufficient resources and 
use its convening power to facilitate the growth of 
artificial intelligence human capital, research, and 
innovation capacity in academia and other nonprofit 
research organizations, companies of all sizes and 
across all sectors, and within the Federal Govern-
ment. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘Advi-
sory Committee’’ means the National Artificial Intel-
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ligence Advisory Committee established under sec-
tion 104(a). 
(2) AGENCY HEAD.—The term ‘‘agency head’’ 
means the head of any Executive agency (as defined 
in section 105 of title 5, United States Code) other 
than the Department of Defense. 
(3) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘‘ar-
tificial intelligence’’ means a machine-based system 
that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, 
make predictions, recommendations or decisions in-
fluencing real or virtual environments. Artificial in-
telligence systems use machine and human-based in-
puts to— 
(A) perceive real and virtual environments; 
(B) abstract such perceptions into models 
through analysis in an automated manner; and 
(C) use model inference to formulate op-
tions for information or action. 
(4) INITIATIVE.—The term ‘‘Initiative’’ means 
the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative estab-
lished under section 101(a). 
(5) INITIATIVE OFFICE.—The term ‘‘Initiative 
Office’’ means the National Artificial Intelligence 
Initiative Office established under section 102(a). 
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(6) INSTITUTE.—The term ‘‘Institute’’ means 
an Artificial Intelligence Research Institute de-
scribed in section 201(b)(1). 
(7) 
INTERAGENCY
COMMITTEE.—The 
term 
‘‘Interagency Committee’’ means the interagency 
committee established under section 103(a). 
(8) K-12 EDUCATION.—The term ‘‘K-12 edu-
cation’’ means elementary school and secondary edu-
cation, as such terms are defined in section 8101 of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(9) MACHINE LEARNING.—The term ‘‘machine 
learning’’ means an application of artificial intel-
ligence that is characterized by providing systems 
the ability to automatically learn and improve on the 
basis of data or experience, without being explicitly 
programmed. 
TITLE I—NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL 
INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE 
SEC. 101. NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INITIA-
TIVE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT; PURPOSES.—The President 
shall establish and implement an initiative to be known 
as the ‘‘National Artificial Intelligence Initiative’’. The 
purposes of the Initiative shall be to— 
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(1) ensure continued United States leadership 
in artificial intelligence research and development; 
(2) lead the world in the development and use 
of trustworthy artificial intelligence systems in the 
public and private sectors; 
(3) maximize the benefits of artificial intel-
ligence systems for all American people; and 
(4) prepare the present and future United 
States workforce for the integration of artificial in-
telligence systems across all sectors of the economy 
and society. 
(b) INITIATIVE ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out the Ini-
tiative, the President, acting through the Initiative Office, 
the Interagency Committee, and agency heads as the 
President considers appropriate, shall carry out activities 
that include the following: 
(1) Sustained, consistent, and coordinated sup-
port for artificial intelligence research and develop-
ment 
through 
grants, 
cooperative 
agreements, 
testbeds, and access to data and computing re-
sources. 
(2) Support for the development of voluntary 
standards, best practices, and benchmarks for the 
development and use of trustworthy artificial intel-
ligence systems. 
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