United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act

Bill: 117-s-2120
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2021-06-17
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Computers and information technology

Higher education

International organizations and cooperation

Israel

Middle East

Research administration and funding

Research and development
Latest action: action_date: 2021-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-06-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>United States&#8211;Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of State to establish the United States&#8211;Israel Artificial Intelligence Center to leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of institutions of higher education and private sector entities in the United States and Israel to develop more robust research and development cooperation in specified areas (e.g., machine learning, object detection, and speech recognition).</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2120 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 17, 2021 Mr. Rubio (for himself, Ms. Cantwell , Ms. Rosen , and Mrs. Blackburn ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations A BILL To establish the United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center to improve artificial intelligence research and development cooperation.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act . 2. Establishment of Center (a) In general The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, shall establish the United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center (referred to in this section as the Center ) in the United States. (b) Purpose The purpose of the Center shall be to leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of institutions of higher education and private sector entities in the United States and Israel to develop more robust research and development cooperation in the areas of— (1) machine learning; (2) image classification; (3) object detection; (4) speech recognition; (5) natural language processing; (6) data labeling; (7) computer vision; and (8) model explainability and interpretability. (c) Artificial intelligence principles In carrying out the purposes set forth in subsection (b), the Center shall adhere to the principles for the use of artificial intelligence in the Federal Government set forth in section 3 of Executive Order 13960 (85 Fed. Reg. 78939). (d) International partnerships (1) In general The Secretary of State and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, subject to the availability of appropriations, may enter into cooperative agreements supporting and enhancing dialogue and planning involving international partnerships between the Department of State or such agencies and the Government of Israel and its ministries, offices, and institutions. (2) Federal share Not more than 50 percent of the costs of implementing the agreements entered into pursuant to paragraph (1) may be paid by the United States Government. (e) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated for the Center $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2022 through 2026.