Title: National Security Commission Artificial Intelligence Act of 2018
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
National Security Commission Artificial Intelligence Act of 2018
This bill establishes, as an independent commission within the executive branch, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence to review the advances in artificial intelligence, related machine learning developments, and associated technologies. Such commission shall consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and associated technologies by the United States in order to comprehensively address national security needs, including economic risk, and any other needs of the Department of Defense or the common defense of the nation.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5356 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5356

      To establish the National Security Commission on Artificial 
                             Intelligence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2018

 Ms. Stefanik introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on 
   Education and the Workforce, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and 
 Technology, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
      To establish the National Security Commission on Artificial 
                             Intelligence.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Security Commission 
Artificial Intelligence Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL SECURITY COMMISSION ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the executive branch an 
independent commission to be known as the National Security Commission 
on Artificial Intelligence (in this subtitle referred to as the 
``Commission''). The Commission shall be considered an independent 
establishment of the Federal Government as defined by section 104 of 
title 5, United States Code, and a temporary organization under section 
3161 of such title.
    (b) Responsibilities.--
            (1) In general.--The Commission shall carry out a review of 
        the advances in artificial intelligence, related machine 
        learning developments, and associated technologies. In carrying 
        out such review, the Commission shall consider the methods and 
        means necessary to advance the development of artificial 
        intelligence, machine learning, and associated technologies by 
        the United States to comprehensively address the national 
        security needs of the Nation, including economic risk, and any 
        other needs of the Department of Defense or the common defense 
        of the Nation.
            (2) Scope of the review.--In conducting the review under 
        paragraph (1)(A), the Commission shall consider--
                    (A) the competitiveness of the United States in 
                artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other 
                associated technologies, including matters related to 
                national security, economic security, public-private 
                partnerships, and investments;
                    (B) means and methods for the United States to 
                maintain a technological advantage in artificial 
                intelligence, machine learning, and other associated 
                technologies, including quantum computing and high 
                performance computing;
                    (C) developments and trends in international 
                cooperation and competitiveness, including foreign 
                investments in artificial intelligence, machine 
                learning, and computer science fields;
                    (D) means by which to foster greater emphasis and 
                investments in basic and advanced research to stimulate 
                private, public, academic and combined initiatives in 
                artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other 
                associated technologies, including quantum computing 
                and high performance computing;
                    (E) workforce and education incentives to attract 
                and recruit leading talent in artificial intelligence 
                and machine learning, including science, technology, 
                engineering, and math programs;
                    (F) risks associated with United States and foreign 
                country advances in military employment of artificial 
                intelligence and machine learning, including under the 
                international law of armed conflict, international 
                humanitarian law, and escalation dynamics;
                    (G) associated ethical considerations related to 
                artificial intelligence and machine learning as it will 
                be used for future applications;
                    (H) means to establish data standards and provide 
                incentives for the sharing of open training data within 
                related data-driven industries;
                    (I) development of privacy- and security-protecting 
                measures for data in artificial intelligence, machine 
                learning, and associated technologies; and
                    (J) any other matters the Commission deems relevant 
                to the common defense of the Nation.
    (c) Membership.--
            (1) Number and appointment.--The Commission shall be 
        composed of 11 members appointed as follows:
                    (A) The Secretary of Defense shall appoint 3 
                members.
                    (B) The Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services 
                of the Senate shall appoint 2 members.
                    (C) The ranking minority member of the Committee on 
                Armed Services of the Senate shall appoint 2 members.
                    (D) The Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services 
                of the House of Representatives shall appoint 2 
                members.
                    (E) The ranking minority member of the Committee on 
                Armed Services of the House of Representatives shall 
                appoint 2 members.
            (2) Deadline for appointment.--Members shall be appointed 
        to the Commission under paragraph (1) not later than 90 days 
        after the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (3) Effect of lack of appointment by appointment date.--If 
        one or more appointments under paragraph (1) is not made by the 
        date specified in paragraph (2), the authority to make such 
        appointment or appointments shall expire, and the number of 
        members of the Commission shall be reduced by the number equal 
        to the number of appointments so not made.
    (d) Chair and Vice Chair.--The Commission shall elect a Chair and 
Vice Chair from among its members.
    (e) Terms.--Members shall be appointed for the life of the 
Commission. A vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers and 
shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment was 
made.
    (f) Status as Federal Employees.--Notwithstanding the requirements 
of section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, including the required 
supervision under subsection (a)(3) of such section, the members of the 
Commission shall be deemed to be Federal employees.
    (g) Funding.--Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for 
fiscal year 2019 for the Department of Defense, not more than 
$10,000,000 shall be made available to the Commission to carry out its 
duties under this section. Funds made available to the Commission under 
the preceding sentence shall remain available until expended.
    (h) Reports.--
            (1) Initial report.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit to 
        the President and Congress an initial report on the findings of 
        the Commission and such recommendations that the Commission may 
        have for action by the executive branch and the Congress 
        related to artificial intelligence and machine learning and 
        associated technologies, including recommendations to more 
        effectively organize the Federal Government.
            (2) Comprehensive report.--Not later than one year after 
        the date of this enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 
        until the date specified in subsection (j), the Commission 
        shall submit to the President and to Congress a comprehensive 
        report on the review required under subsection (b).
    (i) Definition of Artificial Intelligence.--In this section, the 
term ``artificial intelligence'' includes each of the following:
            (1) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying 
        and unpredictable circumstances without significant human 
        oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve 
        performance when exposed to data sets.
            (2) An artificial system developed in computer software, 
        physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring 
        human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, 
        communication, or physical action.
            (3) An artificial system designed to think or act like a 
        human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks.
            (4) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that 
        is designed to approximate a cognitive task.
            (5) An artificial system designed to act rationally, 
        including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that 
        achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, 
        communicating, decisionmaking, and acting.
    (j) Termination.--The Commission shall terminate on October 1, 
2020.
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