Title: GAINS Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Generating Artificial Intelligence Networking Security Act or the GAINS Act
This bill requires the Department of Commerce to study and report on the impact of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, on U.S. businesses conducting interstate commerce.
Such study shall involve, among other things, (1) listing industry sectors that develop and use artificial intelligence and public-private partnerships focused on promoting the adoption and use of such technology, (2) establishing a list of federal agencies asserting jurisdiction over such industry sectors and entities and determining how these agencies are reducing barriers to business adoption and use of artificial intelligence, and (3) assessing risks and trends in the marketplace and supply chain of artificial intelligence.
Commerce must report to Congress the results of such study and any recommendations to promote the adoption of artificial intelligence.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6950 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6950

 To require the Secretary of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission 
 to conduct a study on artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2020

  Mrs. Rodgers of Washington introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Foreign Affairs, 
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 require the Secretary of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission 
 to conduct a study on artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Generating Artificial Intelligence 
Networking Security Act'' or the ``GAINS Act''.

SEC. 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STUDY.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Study required.--Not later than 2 years after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce and the 
        Federal Trade Commission, in coordination with the head of any 
        other appropriate Federal agency, shall conduct a study on the 
        impact of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, 
        on United States businesses conducting interstate commerce.
            (2) Requirements for study.--In conducting the study, the 
        Secretary and the Commission shall do the following:
                    (A) Conduct a survey of artificial intelligence 
                through outreach to participating entities to--
                            (i) establish a list of industry sectors 
                        that develop and use artificial intelligence;
                            (ii) establish a list of public-private 
                        partnerships focused on promoting the adoption 
                        and use of artificial intelligence;
                            (iii) provide a description of the ways 
                        industry sectors develop, use, or promote the 
                        use of artificial intelligence; and
                            (iv) provide a description of the 
                        advantages of the widespread adoption of 
                        artificial intelligence, as well as identify 
                        any concerns the use of such technology may 
                        present.
                    (B) Conduct a survey of Federal activity relating 
                to artificial intelligence to--
                            (i) establish a comprehensive list of 
                        Federal agencies asserting jurisdiction over 
                        entities and industry sectors identified under 
                        subparagraph (A)(i);
                            (ii) identify all interagency activities 
                        related to artificial intelligence;
                            (iii) develop a brief description of the 
                        jurisdiction and expertise of the Federal 
                        agencies as it relates to artificial 
                        intelligence; and
                            (iv) identify each Federal rule, 
                        regulation, guideline, policy, and other 
                        Federal activity implemented by a Federal 
                        agency related to artificial intelligence.
                    (C) Determine whether and how each Federal agency 
                asserting jurisdiction over artificial intelligence 
                is--
                            (i) reducing barriers to business adoption 
                        and use of artificial intelligence;
                            (ii) considering any cybersecurity and 
                        consumer protection risks related to the use of 
                        artificial intelligence; and
                            (iii) developing and implementing plans 
                        that promote the expeditious adoption of 
                        artificial intelligence to protect the 
                        advantage of business sectors of the United 
                        States in artificial intelligence.
                    (D) Conduct an international survey of other 
                countries to establish a compendium of at least 10 and 
                not more than 15 countries consisting of each country's 
                national strategy on artificial intelligence to 
                determine where the United States ranks with respect to 
                the adoption of artificial intelligence.
                    (E) Conduct a survey of the marketplace and supply 
                chain of artificial intelligence to--
                            (i) assess the severity of risks posed to 
                        such marketplace and supply chain;
                            (ii) review the ability of foreign 
                        governments or third parties to exploit the 
                        supply chain in a manner that raises risks to 
                        the economic and national security of the 
                        United States; and
                            (iii) identify emerging risks and long-term 
                        trends in such marketplace and supply chain.
    (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than 6 months after the 
completion of the study required pursuant to subsection (a), the 
Secretary and the Commission, in coordination with any other 
appropriate Federal agency, shall submit to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report that contains--
            (1) the results of the study conducted pursuant to 
        subsection (a); and
            (2) recommendations to--
                    (A) address any duplicative Federal rule, 
                regulation, guideline, policy, and other Federal 
                activity acting as a barrier to the adoption and use of 
                artificial intelligence;
                    (B) ensure any such Federal rule, regulation, 
                guideline, policy, and other Federal activity is 
                flexible for different industries and applications;
                    (C) develop a national strategy to advance the 
                position in the world of business sectors in the United 
                States on the adoption of artificial intelligence;
                    (D) develop strategies to mitigate current and 
                emerging risks to the marketplace and supply chain of 
                artificial intelligence; and
                    (E) develop legislation that may advance the 
                expeditious adoption of artificial intelligence.
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