Federal Laws

Updated February 11, 2025

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - AI ACTIVITIES: 

1. CONGRESS

2. EXECUTIVE BRANCH

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1. CONGRESS 

1. LEGISLATION (Passed): 

1. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (116 P.L. 283, 134 Stat. 3388, enacted January 1, 2021) (NAIIA): Bipartisan legislation enacted January 1, 2021 (as part of the FY2021 NDAA). 

1. Purposes: ensuring U.S. development and use of trustworthy AI systems in public and private sectors; U.S. workforce preparation for AI integration across social and economic sectors; and coordination of ongoing AI activities across Federal agencies.

2. The Deepfake Report Act, 50 U.S. Code § 3369a (Section 9004 of P.L.116-283) - requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct an annual assessment of the threat of deepfakes by foreign and domestic entities, focusing on the ways deepfakes can be used to threaten national security.   

3. Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools Against the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (PROTECT Act), Pub. L. 108-21, 117 Stat. 650 (2003) (codified as amended in sections of 18 and 34 U.S.C.): criminalizes possession of sexually explicit images of a child, including certain computer-generated images.  

1. CONGRESSIONAL JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/home 

1. 6.4.2024 - Meeting: Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential to Fuel Economic Growth and Improve Governance https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings-calendar?ID=991A4E73-DCFF-43A8-9A2C-52CF2871D05C 

1. Opening Statement: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e41f20c3-d242-4a55-9598-d49d095fdc60/-reformatted-hearing-opening-statement-6.4.pdf 

2. Witnesses:

1. Brian J. Miller, MD, American Enterprise Institute

2. Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow, Technology and Innovation, R Street Institute

3. Dr. Ayanna Howard, Dean of Engineering, Ohio State University

4. Dr. Jennifer Gaudioso, Director, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratory 

2. SENATE - KEY MEMBERS/ORGS AND FRAMEWORKS: 

1. SENATE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUCUS - objective: to “develop smart policy that balances AI’s risks and rewards to ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, while maintaining important ethical standards.” Led by: Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD). https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/artificial-intelligence-caucus  

2. FRAMEWORKS: 

1. Bipartisan Framework on Artificial Intelligence Legislation (Announced 9/8/2023): A “legislative framework to establish guardrails for artificial intelligence,” with “specific principles for upcoming legislative efforts, including the establishment of an independent oversight body, ensuring legal accountability for harms, defending national security, promoting transparency, and protecting consumers and kids.” https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-and-hawley-announce-bipartisan-framework-on-artificial-intelligence-legislation  (Key provision: “Promote Transparency: Congress should promote responsibility, due diligence, and consumer redress by requiring transparency from the companies developing and deploying A.I. systems” – “A.I. system providers should be required to watermark or otherwise provide technical disclosures of A.I.-generated deepfakes.”) 

2. “SAFE Innovation Framework For Artificial Intelligence”: Senate Majority Leader Schumer’s policy framework for “harnessing AI’s potential, while protecting society from potential harms.” https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/schumer_ai_framework.pdf (“These policy objectives are at the center of my work on AI”).  

3. SENATE - HEARINGS/MEETINGS: 

1. SENATE AI INSIGHT FORUM –  

1. Leadership: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer; Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Todd Young (R-Ind), leading a bipartisan group of senators. 

2. Focus: (1) Asking the right questions; (2) AI innovation; (3) Copyright & IP; (4) Use-cases & risk management; (5) Workforce; (6) National security; (7) Guarding against doomsday scenarios; (8) AI’s role in our social world; (9) Transparency, explainability & alignment; (10) and Privacy & liability.  

3. On Potential AI Regulation: “Congress must play a role – must play a role – in regulating AI.” 

1. Timing: Concern that AI generated “deepfakes” will affect the 2024 election (proposed legislation below);

2. Form of Oversight: Some Senators envision an “independent oversight body” to regulate AI. 

4. Meetings: 

1. 12.6.2023 - Ninth (final) meeting of the Senate’s AI Insight Forum - AI and national security: https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statements-from-the-ninth-bipartisan-senate-forum-on-artificial-intelligence

1. Participants from: 

1. Tech/Defense Tech companies (Palantir CEO Alex Karp; SAAB Strategy Office’s Devaki Raj, Chief Digital and AI Officer; Microsoft’s William Chappell, CTO/Vice President, Strategic Missions and Technologies; Scale AI’s Alex Wang, Founder/CEO; Special Competitive Studies Project’s (and Fmr. Google CEO) Eric Schmidt, Founder/Chair; Booz Allen Hamilton’s Horacio Rozanski, CEO/President; Vannevar Labs’s Scott Philips, CTO; Anduril Industries’s Brian Schimpf, Co-founder/CEO; Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng, President/Co-founder); 

2. VC Companies (Teresa Carlson, General Catalyst Advisor and Investor). 

3. Thank Tanks (Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Gregory C. Allen, Director of Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies; Brennan Center for Justice’s Faiza Patel, Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Program; Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Co-Founder and Chair, Michèle Flournoy; CNAS’s Jack Shanahan, Sr. Fellow, Technology & National Security Program (and retired Lieutenant General, USAF);

4. Orgs (International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers’s President, Matthew Biggs; Aerospace Industries Association’s President/CEO, Eric Fanning; ACLU’s Deputy Director, National Security Project, Patrick Toomey);

5. Private Citizens/Govt. Ret. (John Antal, Author/retired Colonel; Charles McMillan, retired Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Rob Portman, Former Senator (R-OH), Co-founder of the Senate A.I. Caucus); and 

6. Academia (Anna Puglisi, Sr. Fellow, Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology). 

2. 12.6.2023 - Eighth meeting of the Senate’s AI Insight Forum - AI Doomsday Scenarios: focused “on the long-term risks of AI and preventing doomsday scenarios.” https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statements-from-the-eighth-bipartisan-senate-forum-on-artificial-intelligence 

1. Participants from: 

1. Tech Companies (Jared Kaplan, Co-Founder/Chief Science Officer, Anthropic; Aleksander Mądry, Head of Preparedness, OpenAI; Robert Playter, CEO, Boston Dynamics; Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO/Co-founder, Pindrop);

2. VC Companies (Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner, AI Fund; Martin Casado, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz);

3. Think Tanks, Research Consultants (Hodan Omaar, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) Senior Policy Analyst; Rocco Casagrande, Executive Chairman, Gryphon Scientific);

4. Orgs (Amanda Ballantyne, Director, AFL-CIO Technology Institute; Okezue Bell, President of Fidutam; Janet Haven, Executive Director, Data & Society; Malo Bourgon, CEO, Machine Intelligence Research Institute); and

5. Academia (Yoshua Bengio, Professor, University of Montreal; Huey-Meei Chang, Sr. China Science & Technology Specialist, Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology; Renée Cummings, Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia; Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Alexander Titus, Principal Scientist, USC Information Science Institute).

3. 11.29.2023 - Seventh meeting of the Senate’s bipartisan AI Insight Forum - AI Transparency: focused on “Transparency, Explainability, Intellectual Property, and Copyright.” https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statements-from-the-seventh-bipartisan-senate-forum-on-artificial-intelligence 

1. Participants from: 

1. Tech companies (Ben Brooks - Stability AI Head of Public Policy; Navrina Singh - Credo AI Founder/CEO; Ziad Sultan - Spotify VP of Personalization; Mounir Ibrahim - Truepic); 

2. News and Entertainment Industry (Rick Beato - Musician/Youtuber; Danielle Coffey - News/Media Alliance President/CEO; Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director; Vanessa Holtgrewe - IATSE Assistant Department Director, Motion Picture and Television Production; Dennis Kooker - Sony Music Entertainment President of Global Digital Business & US Sales; Curtis LeGeyt – National Association of Broadcasters President/CEO; Jon Schleuss - NewsGuild President; Ben Sheffner - Motion Picture Association Senior VP, Associate General Counsel for Law & Policy); 

3. Orgs and Think Tanks (Ali Farhadi - Allen Institute for AI CEO; Zach Graves - Executive Director, Foundation for American Innovation; Nicol Turner Lee - Brookings Senior Fellow of Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation Director); and 

4. Academia (Cynthia Rudin - Duke University Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Interpretable Machine Learning Lab Director). 

4. 11.8.2023 - Sixth meeting of the Senate’s bipartisan AI Insight Forum - Privacy and Liability: focused on “the collection, use, and retention of data,” and “when AI companies may be liable for harms caused by their technologies.” https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statements-from-the-sixth-bipartisan-senate-forum-on-artificial-intelligence 

1. Participants from: 

1. Tech Companies (Bernard Kim – Match Group, CEO); 

2. Professional Assns, Consultancies, Orgs. (Mark Surman - Mozilla Foundation, President/Executive Director; Gary Shapiro - Consumer Technology Association, President/CEO; Arthur Evans Jr - American Psychological Association, CEO/Executive VP; Tracy Pizzo Frey - Advisor, Common Sense Media; Samir Jain - Center for Democracy and Technology, VP of Policy; Mutale Nkonde - AI For the People, founding CEO; Rashad Robinson - Color of Change, President; Chris Lewis - Public Knowledge, President/CEO; Mackenzie Arnold - Legal Priorities Project, Head of Strategy, liability specialist; Daniel Castro - ​​Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, VP/ Director of ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation; Linda Lipsen - American Association for Justice, CEO); 

3. Law Firms (Stuart Ingis - Venable LLP, Chairman); 

4. Unions (Stuart Appelbaum - Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, President); 

5. Academia - Professors/Administrators (Zachary Lipton - Abridge CEO and Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon; Ganesh Sitaraman - Vanderbilt Law). 

5. 11.8.2023 - Fifth meeting of the Senate’s bipartisan AI Insight Forum - Democracy and Elections: focused on “how AI systems will reshape the landscape of American electoral processes, and will explore how AI may pose new risks to our elections – including disinformation and misinformation – and what policy solutions may exist to address these novel risks.” https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statements-from-the-fifth-bipartisan-senate-forum-on-artificial-intelligence 

1.   Participants from: 

1. Big Tech (Andy Parsons, Adobe, Senior Director of the Content Authenticity Initiative; Matt Masterson, Microsoft, Director of Information Integrity; Neil Potts, Facebook, Vice President of Public Policy, Trust & Safety; Dave Vorhaus, Google, Director, Global Elections Integrity); 

2. Think Tanks (Ben Ginsberg, Hoover Institution, Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow; Jennifer Huddleston, CATO Institute, Tech Policy Research Fellow; Jessica Brandt, Brookings Institution, Policy Director of A.I. and Emerging Technology Initiative and Foreign Policy Fellow; Kara Frederick,  The Heritage Foundation, Director of the Tech Policy Center; Lawrence Norden, Brennan Center for Justice, Senior Director of the Elections and Government Program); 

3. Public Sector Offices (Jocelyn Benson - Secretary of State, State of Michigan; Deidre Henderson -  Lieutenant Governor, State of Utah);  

4. Universities (Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory at the Cyber Policy Center); 

5. Professional Assns, Consultancies, Other Orgs (Amy Cohen, National Association of State Election Directors, Executive Director; Damon Hewitt, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, President/Executive Director; Ari Cohn, TechFreedom, Free Speech Counsel; Yael Eisenstat,  Anti-Defamation League, VP of the Center for Technology & Society; Melanie Campbell, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, President/CEO; Michael Chertoff, Chertoff Group, Co-founder/ Executive Chairman, and Former Secretary of Department of Homeland Security). 

6. 11.1.2023 - Fourth meeting of the Senate’s bipartisan AI Insight Forum - “High impact” issues: “important topics like AI in the financial sector and health industry, and how AI developers and deployers can best mitigate potential harms.”  https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statements-from-the-fourth-bipartisan-senate-forum-on-artificial-intelligence 

1. Participants from:  

1. Big Tech and other Large Companies (Google Director/Head of Product for Responsible AI; Clearview AI’s Co-founder/CEO; Hugging Face Researcher/Chief Ethics Scientist; Capital One’s Chief Scientist/Head of Enterprise Data and AI); 

2. Think Tanks, Orgs, Consultancies (Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)’s President/CEO; O’Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing (ORCAA)’s Founder/CEO; Upstart Founder/CEO; the Brookings Institution’s AI Equity Lab Co-chair (and Racial Equity Consultant); National Fair Housing Alliance’s President/CEO; SAS Institute’s VP of Data Ethics;  Epic’s Senior VP of R&D; the National Urban League’s VP of Policy); 

3. Academia - Professors/Administrators: Princeton University; NYU’s Center for Responsible AI Director; Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Digital Witness Lab. 

4. Unions: Service Employees International Union (SEIU)’s Chief Economist and Policy Director. 

7. 11.1.2023 - Third meeting of the Senate’s bipartisan AI Insight Forum - AI workforce issues: including “how AI will alter the way that Americans work, including the risks and opportunities” in industries such as medicine, manufacturing, and energy. https://www.rounds.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rounds-working-group-to-host-ai-discussion-on-workforce 

1. Participants from: 

1. Big Tech and other Large Companies (Microsoft’s Director of Education Policy and Programs; Indeed’s Chairman and CEO; Accenture; Mastercard’s Chief People Officer); 

2. Labor Unions (Communication Workers of America;  International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; National Nurses United; United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW); UNITE HERE); 

3. Think Tanks and Other Organizations (American Enterprise Institute; Center for American Progress; Information Technology and Innovation Foundation); and 

4. Academia - Professors/Administrators (Dakota State University, MIT, University of Virginia

8. 10.24.2023 - Second meeting of the Senate’s bipartisan AI Insight Forum - AI Innovation: focused on innovation in medicine, energy and science. https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statements-from-the-second-bipartisan-senate-forum-on-artificial-intelligence 

1. Participants from: 

1. Tech Companies (Micron’s Executive Vice President; EleutherAI’s Executive Director; SeedAI’s Founder/President; Cohere’s Co-founder/CEO; Stripe’s Co-founder/CEO; Altana Technologies’s Co-founder/CEO; AbSci’s Founder/CEO); 

2. Other Businesses - including venture capital companies ( Andreessen Horowitz’s Co-founder/General Partner; Kleiner Perkins’s Chairman; Revolution LLC’s Chairman/CEO); 

3. Civil Society Groups and other Organizations (Center for Democracy and Technology’s President/CEO; Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)’s President/CEO; Future of Life Institute’s President; NAACP’s President/CEO); Unions (AFL-CIO Technology Institute Director); 

4. Academia - Professors/Administrators (George Mason University; Carnegie Mellon University; Morgan State University; Institute for Advanced Study; MIT’s Former President; Brown University). 

2. Described: https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2023/10/25/169/176/CREC-2023-10-25.pdf (after today’s forum, there was universal agreement that Congress had to be prepared, not just to be involved but to invest significant resources in AI innovation, both inside the government and outside, helping companies and universities and others because the government can do things in terms of dollar investments that others simply can’t. The awesome power of the Federal Government and its ability to provide resources is way beyond the capability of any one company, university, et cetera. …we are still just at the beginning. We will continue to hold bipartisan AI Insight Forums in the weeks and months to come and encourage the relevant committees to begin drawing up bipartisan legislation.”)

9. 9.13.2023 - First of nine scheduled closed-door, Senate-wide AI “Insight Forum” sessions with technologists, academics, and other stakeholders. Session focused on: AI societal risks.   https://www.democrats.senate.gov/news/press-releases/majority-leader-schumer-floor-remarks-on-the-success-of-the-inaugural-ai-insight-forum    

1. Participants from: 

1. AI Companies (Google CEO Sundar Pichai; Tesla, X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk; NVIDIA President Jensen Huang; Meta founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; technologist and Google alum Eric Schmidt; Palantir CEO Alex Karp);

2. Representatives from labor and civil rights advocacy groups (AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights President/CEO Maya Wiley; AI accountability researcher Deb Rajiwould)

1. SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE - 

1. 1.17.2024 - Hearing: The Cyber Safety Review Board: Expectations, Outcomes, And Enduring Questions https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the-cyber-safety-review-board-expectations-outcomes-and-enduring-questions-2/; https://www.congress.gov/118/chrg/CHRG-118shrg54719/CHRG-118shrg54719.pdf;  https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024-01-17-Cyber-Safety.pdf  

1. Witnesses: 

1. Tarah M. Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer, Red Queen Dynamics  

2. John Miller, Senior Vice President of Policy, Trust, Data, and Technology, and General Counsel, Information Technology Industry Council  

3. Trey Herr, Ph.D., Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council

2. 1.10.2024 -  Hearing: Harnessing AI to Improve Government Services and Customer Experience https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/harnessing-ai-to-improve-government-services-and-customer-experience/ and https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024-01-10-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf   

1. Witnesses: 

1. Jennifer Pahlka, Former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer (2013-2014), Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President

2. Beth Simone Noveck, Ph.D., Chief Innovation Officer, State of New Jersey

3. Beth Blauer, Associate Vice Provost for Public Sector Innovation, Johns Hopkins University

3. 11.08.2023 -  Hearing: The Philosophy of AI: Learning From History, Shaping Our Future https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the-philosophy-of-ai-learning-from-history-shaping-our-future/ 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Daron Acemoglu, Ph.D., Institute Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2. Margeret Hu, Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School

3. Shannon Vallor, Ph.D., Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh

4. 9.14.2023 -  Hearing: Governing AI Through Acquisition and Procurement https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023-09-14-Artificial-Intelligence-3.pdf  

1. Witnesses: 

1. Rayid Ghani, Distinguished Career Professor, Machine Learning Department and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

2. Fei-Fei Li, Ph.D., Sequoia Professor, Computer Science Department, and Co-Director, Human-Centered AI Institute, Stanford University

3. Devaki Raj, Former Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, CrowdAI

4. William Roberts, Director of Emerging Technologies, ASI Government

5. Michael Shellenberger, Founder, Public https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Testimony-Shellenberger-2023-09-14.pdf 

5. 3.8.2023 -  Hearing: AI: Risks and Opportunities https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/artificial-intelligence-risks-and-opportunities/ and https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023-03-08-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Alexandra Reeve Givens, President, CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology 

2. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Brown University 

3. Jason Matheny, Ph.D. President, CEO, RAND Corporation

1. SENATE RULES AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE - 

1. 5.15.2024 - Executive Session: Legislation Considered: 

1. S. 2770, Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (to prohibit the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office); 

2. S. 3875, AI Transparency in Elections Act of 2024 (to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements); and

3. S. 3897, Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (to require the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies).   

2. 9.27.2023 - Hearing: AI and the Future of our Elections:   https://www.rules.senate.gov/hearings/ai-and-the-future-of-our-elections  

1. Witnesses: Trevor Potter, Former Commissioner/Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, Founder and President of Campaign Legal Center (DC); Maya Wiley, President/CEO, The Leadership Conference On Civil And Human Rights (DC); Ari Cohn, Free Speech Counsel, TechFreedom (DC); Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary Of State; Neil Chilson, Senior Research Fellow, Center For Growth And Opportunity At Utah State University. 

2. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - 

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

1. 4.30.2024 - Hearing: The NO FAKES Act: Protecting Americans from Unauthorized Digital Replicas https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/the-no-fakes-act-protecting-americans-from-unauthorized-digital-replicas; https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/335702  

1. WItnesses: 

1. Tahliah Debrett Barnett (“FKA twigs”), Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Dancer, and Actor 

2. Robert Kyncl, Chief Executive Officer, Warner Music Group 

3. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

4. Ben Sheffner, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Law and Policy, Motion Picture Association, Inc.

5. Graham Davies, President and Chief Executive Officer, Digital Media Association

6. Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law

 7.12.2023 - Hearing: AI and Intellectual Property – Part II: Copyright: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property_part-ii-copyright 

1. Some Witnesses:  

1. Dana Rao, Adobe Inc. Executive VP, General Counsel, and Chief Trust Officer (“Congress should support provenance solutions and standards for providing consumers with more transparency about the content they are consuming – such as the Content Credentials technology and its underlying C2PA standard… [and] require any product or platform that receives content with provenance metadata attached to preserve and display that metadata (and not strip it away). … “[T]ransparency in digital content is critical, especially in the age of AI. This is the mission behind the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI)...a group of more than 1500 members from across industries working to help enable creator attribution and fight misinformation through open standards for provenance technology and supporting tools like Content Credentials.” 

2. Ben Brooks, Stability AI Head of Public Policy: “policymakers can help to fortify the wider information ecosystem by encouraging the adoption of content provenance standards by AI applications and advanced content moderation systems by social media or streaming platforms.”  AI developers can take steps including “respecting opt-outs in training data; watermarking and tagging AI-assisted content to help users and platforms distinguish it from human-generated content; and mitigating defective behavior such as overfitting.”

1. 6.07.2023 - Hearing: AI and Intellectual Property – Part I: Patents, Innovation, Competition: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property_part-i-patents-innovation-and-competition 

1. Some Witnesses:  

1. Laura Sheridan, Google Head of Patent Policy

2. Rama Elluru, Senior Director for Society and Intellectual Property, Special Competitive Studies Project

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LAW 

1. 6.13.2023 - Hearing: AI and Human Rights: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/artificial-intelligence-and-human-rights  

1. Some Witnesses:  

1. Alexandra Reeve Givens, Center for Democracy & Technology President & CEO (Concern about AI-generated image falsification in elections, democratic discourse, threatening human rights, twisting public understanding of political figures and events). 

2. SUBCOMMITTEE ON PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE LAW 

1.  9.17.2024 - Hearing: Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/oversight-of-ai-insiders-perspectives; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ijUIfmrOs&t=10s    

1. Witnesses: 

1. Helen Toner, Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants 

2. Margaret Mitchell, Google AI, Former Staff Research Scientist

3. William Saunders, Former Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI 

4. David Evan Harris, California Initiative for Technology and Democracy, Senior Policy Advisor, and UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Public Scholar 

2. 4.16.2024 - Hearing: An oversight hearing to examine AI, focusing on election deepfakes: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/oversight-of-ai-election-deepfakes 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Hon. David Scanlan, New Hampshire Secretary of State

2. Zohaib Ahmed, CEO and Co-Founder, Resemble AI

3. Ben Colman, CEO and Co-Founder, Reality Defender

4. Rijul Gupta, CEO, DeepMedia

3. 9.12.2023 - Hearing: Oversight of AI: Legislating on Artificial Intelligence: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/oversight-of-ai-legislating-on-artificial-intelligence

1. Some Witnesses: 

1. Brad Smith, Microsoft Vice Chair and President (Microsoft has made voluntary commitments to the White House, and “gone beyond them.”) 

2. William Dally, NVIDIA Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research 

4. 7.25.2023 - Hearing: Oversight of AI: Principles for Regulation: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/oversight-of-ai-principles-for-regulation  

1. Some Witnesses: 

1. Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO (Anthropic aims to “lead by example in developing and publishing techniques to make AI systems safer and more controllable and deploying those techniques thoughtfully in state of the art models”)

2. Professors - Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science, UC-Berkeley; Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila - Québec AI Institute, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal). 

5. 5.16.2023 - Hearing: Oversight of AI: Rules for Artificial Intelligence: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/oversight-of-ai-rules-for-artificial-intelligence 

1. Some Witnesses: 

1. Samuel Altman, OpenAI CEO (re: copyright, AI legislation, etc.) 

2. Christina Montgomery, IBM Chief Privacy & Trust Office 

1. SENATE COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE 

1. 7.31.2024 - Executive Session: Legislation Considered (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/7/executive-session):   

1. S.2714, the CREATE AI Act of 2023 - to establish the National AI Research Resource; 

2. S.3162, the TEST AI Act of 2023 - to improve the requirement for the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish testbeds to support the development and testing of trustworthy artificial intelligence systems and to improve interagency coordination in development of such testbeds, 

3. S.3312, the Artificial Intelligence Research, Innovation, and Accountability Act of 2023 - to provide a framework for A.I. innovation and accountability; 

4. S.3849, the Promoting United State Leadership in Standards Act of 2024 - to promote U.S. leadership in technical standards by directing the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of State to take certain actions to encourage and enable U.S. participation in developing standards and specifications for A.I. and other critical and emerging technologies, 

5. S.4769, the Validation and Evaluation for the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Act; and 

6. S.4178, the Future of Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2024 - to establish A.I. standards, metrics, and evaluation tools, to support A.I. research, development, and capacity building activities, to promote innovation in the A.I. industry by ensuring companies of all sizes can succeed and thrive.  

2. 7.11.2024 - Hearing: The Need to Protect Americans’ Privacy and the AI Accelerant https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/7/the-need-to-protect-americans-privacy-and-the-ai-accelerant 

1.  Witnesses:  

1. Ryan Calo, Professor, University of Washington School of Law; Co-Director, UW Tech Policy Lab

2. Amba Kak, Co-Executive Director, AI Now Institute

3. Udbhav Tiwari, Director, Global Product Policy, Mozilla

4. Morgan Reed, President, ACT | The App Association

2. SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, PRODUCT SAFETY AND DATA SECURITY

1. 11.19.2024 - Hearing: Protecting Consumers from Artificial Intelligence Enabled Fraud and Scams  https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/11/protecting-consumers-from-artificial-intelligence-enabled-fraud-and-scams 

1. Majority Statement: Senator Hickenlooper https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/0DC1EDE4-51F7-4B94-BA89-07FCB92EA1D1 

2. Witnesses: 

1. Hany Farid, Professor, University of California Berkeley, School of Information

2. Justin Brookman, Director, Technology Policy, Consumer Reports

3. Mounir Ibrahim, Chief Communications Officer & Head of Public Affairs, Truepic

4. Dorota Mani, Mother of Deepfake Pornography Victim 

2. 9.12.2023 - Hearing: The Need for Transparency in AI: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2023/9/the-need-for-transparency-in-artificial-intelligence# 

1. Witnesses:

1. Victoria Espinel, CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance 

2. Dr. Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon 

3. Sam Gregory, Executive Director of WITNESS 

4. Rob Strayer, Executive VP for Policy, Information Technology Industry Council 

1. SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE 

1. 2.8.2024 - Hearings to examine AI and Health Care, focusing on promise and pitfalls https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/artificial-intelligence-and-health-care-promise-and-pitfalls 

1. Some Witnesses: 

1. Peter Shen, Siemens Healthineers Head Of Digital & Automation For North America

2. Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Health AI Partnership

3. Michelle M. Mello, JD, Ph.D., Stanford Professor Of Health Policy, Law

4. Ziad Obermeyer, MD, UC Berkeley Associate Professor And Blue Cross Of California Distinguished Professor

5. Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., University of Chicago Provost

1. SENATE BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE 

1. New!  1.15.2025 - U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs legislative and oversight priorities for the 119th Congress https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/majority/scott-announces-banking-committee-priorities-for-the-119th-congress 

2. 6.12.2024 - Hearings: To examine the CFPB’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress, including S.3554, to amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to provide the Financial Stability Oversight Council with duties regarding A.I. in the financial sector, S.146, to reduce the price of insulin for patients https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/06/05/2024/the-consumer-financial-protection-bureaus-semi-annual-report-to-congress 

1. Witness: The Honorable Rohit Chopra, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

2. Related Legislation: 

1. S.146, Cap Insulin Prices Act

2. S.3554, FAIRR Act

3. 9.20.2023 - Hearing: Artificial intelligence in financial services https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/artificial-intelligence-in-financial-services 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Melissa Koide, Director and CEO, FinRegLab, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consumer Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury

2. Daniel Gorfine, Founder & CEO, Gattaca Horizons, LLC, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University, former Chief Innovation Officer, Commodity Futures Trading Commission 

3. Professor Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, Computer Science & Engineering.

2. SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

1. 1.31.2024 - Hearing: Artificial Intelligence and Housing: Exploring Promise and Peril https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/artificial-intelligence-and-housing-exploring-promise-and-peril 

1. WItnesses: 

1. Lisa Rice, President/CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance

2. Dr. Vanessa Perry, Interim Dean And Professor, George Washington University School Of Busines; Non-resident Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center, Urban Institute

3. Nicholas Schmidt, Partner And Artificial Intelligence Practice Leader, BLDS, And Founder And CTO, SolasAI

1. HOUSE - KEY MEMBERS/ORGS AND FRAMEWORKS: 

1. House bipartisan AI Task Force:  

1. Announced: 2.20.2024 by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.  

2. Chairs: Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.). 

3. Objective: “to produce a comprehensive report that will include guiding principles, forward-looking recommendations and bipartisan policy proposals developed in consultation with committees of jurisdiction.” 

2. New Democrat Coalition (NDC) AI Working Group: to crack down on deepfakes, mitigating the dangers of AI deepfakes in advance of the 2024 election; and engage with the Biden administration, stakeholders and lawmakers (on both sides of the aisle and Capitol) to develop and advance sensible, bipartisan policies to address this emerging technology.  https://newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-dems-announce-first-ever-artificial-intelligence-working-group    

1. Leadership: Derek Kilmer (WA-06), Chair; Vice Chairs: Don Beyer (VA-08), Jeff Jackson (NC-14), Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Susie Lee (NV-02), and Haley Stevens (MI-11).  

2. Activities: 

1. 7.24.2024: The AI Working Group visited NIST to discuss AI infrastructure, regulation, and applications with experts.

2. 5.23.2024: The group endorsed 10 bipartisan bills focused on AI workforce training, economic impact studies, and consumer protections. https://newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/imo/media/doc/ndc_ai_endorsement_slate.pdf 

1. H.R. 3369 – the Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act: This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to study and report on accountability measures for AI systems, to ensure trustworthy AI systems, which could lead to new standards affecting both consumers and tech companies.

2. H.R. 4498 – Jobs of the Future Act of 2023: legislation that directs the Department of Labor and National Science Foundation to analyze the future growth of AI and its impact on the American workforce.  

3. H.R. 4755 – Privacy Enhancing Technologies Research Act: a bill supporting research and development of privacy-enhancing technologies, aiming to help organizations collect, share, and use data while mitigating privacy risks. This is particularly relevant for tech companies handling large volumes of personal data.

3. 3.26.2024: Members sent a letter supporting President Biden’s AI Executive Order and urged action on workforce development and diversity.

4. 11.8.2023: The group raised concerns with tech CEOs about the risks of AI-generated deceptive media.

5. 9.27.2023: They held a roundtable with Carnegie Mellon experts on AI’s workforce, democracy, and national security impacts. 

6. 8.15.2023: The New Democrat Coalition launched the AI Working Group to advance policies balancing innovation and risk mitigation. 

1. HOUSE - HEARINGS/MEETINGS: 

1. HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE - 

1. 12.13.23 - Hearing: Leveraging Agency Expertise to Foster American AI Leadership and Innovation (A full committee hearing to discuss the federal government’s role in addressing the AI in the marketplace). 

https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-rodgers-announces-full-committee-ai-hearing-with-energy-health-and-commerce-departments 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Director Helena Fu, Director of Critical and Emerging Technology, Office of the Undersecretary for Science, Department of Energy 

2. Dr. Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Tech, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 

3. Mr. Saif Khan, Senior Advisor to Secretary for Critical and Emerging Technologies, Department of Commerce 

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON INNOVATION, DATA AND COMMERCE

1. 10.18.23 - Hearing: Safeguarding Data and Innovation: Setting the Foundation for the use of AI https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/safeguarding-data-and-innovation-setting-the-foundation-for-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09s-r84GUlI 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Victoria Espinel, CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance 

2. Raffi Krikorian, Chief Technology Officer, Emerson Collective 

3. Amba Kak, Executive Director, AI Now Institute 

4. Clark Gregg, Actor and Screenwriter, SAG-AFTRA 

5. Jon Leibowitz, Former Chair and Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission.

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, MANUFACTURING, AND TRADE

1. NEW!  2.12.2025 - Hearing: AI in Manufacturing: Securing American Leadership in Manufacturing and the Next Generation of Technologies  https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairmen-guthrie-and-bilirakis-announce-cmt-subcommittee-hearing-on-advanced-manufacturing; https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/commerce-manufacturing-and-trade-hearing-titled-ai-in-manufacturing-subcommittee-securing-american-leadership-in-manufacturing-and-the-next-generation-of-technologies  

1. Memo: https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/02_12_25_CMT_Hearing_Memo_6b17c21cdd.pdf 

2. WItnesses: 

1. Barbara Humpton, President and CEO, Siemens Corporation

2. Jason Oxman, President and CEO, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

3. Jeff Kinder, Executive Vice President, Product Development and Manufacturing

Solutions, Autodesk

1. Dr. Elisabeth B. Reynolds, Professor of Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

1. HOUSE SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE  

1. 6.22.2023 - Hearing: AI: Advancing Innovation Towards the National Interest  https://science.house.gov/2023/6/artificial-intelligence-advancing-innovation-towards-the-national-interest 

1. Witnesses:

1. Clement Delangue, HuggingFace Co-founder & CEO

2. Dr. Jason Matheny, RAND Corporation President & CEO 

3. Dr. Shahin Farshchi, General Partner, Lux Capital (defense technology)

4. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, Responsible AI Fellow, Harvard University 

5. Dr. Dewey Murdick, Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology Committee, Georgetown University

2. (JOINT) OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS / RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY SUBCOMMITTEES

1. 10.18.2023 - Hearing: Balancing Knowledge and Governance: Foundations for Effective AI Risk Management  https://science.house.gov/hearings?ID=533B37E6-5EEA-449A-96D4-A5AAB5EDABD3 

1. Witnesses:

1. Elham Tabassi, Associate Director for Emerging Technologies, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

2. Michael Kratsios, Managing Director, Scale AI, 4th Chief Technology Officer of the United States

3. Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington

4. Caleb Watney, Co-CEO, Institute for Progress

3. RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY SUBCOMMITTEE

1. 2.6.2024 - Hearing: Federal Science Agencies and the Promise of AI in Driving Scientific Discoveries (Joint Research & Technology and Energy Subcommittees Hearing) https://science.house.gov/2024/2/joint-research-technology-and-energy-subcommittee-hearing-federal-science-agencies-and-the-promise-of-ai-in-driving-scientific-discoveries 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Tess DeBlanc Knowles, Special Assistant to the Director for AI, National Science Foundation

2. Dr. Georgia Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

3. Dr. Chaouki Abdallah, Executive VP for Research, Georgia Institute of Technology

4. Dr. Louay Chamra, Dean, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University

5. Jack Clark, Co-Founder and Head of Policy, Anthropic

2. 9.29.2022 - Hearing: Trustworthy AI: Managing the Risks of Artificial Intelligence https://republicans-science.house.gov/2022/9/research-technology-subcommittee-hearing-trustworthy-ai-managing-the-risks-of-artificial-intelligence   

1. Witnesses:

1. Navrina Singh, Credo AI Founder and Chief Executive Officer

2. Elham Tabassi, Chief of Staff, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST

3. Dr. Charles Isbell, Dean and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair of the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

4. Jordan Crenshaw, Vice President of the Chamber Technology Engagement Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

1. HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE + SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE WEAPONIZATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

1. 12.18.2024 - Interim Staff Report: Censorship's Next Frontier: The Federal Government's Attempt to Control Artificial Intelligence to Suppress Free Speech - details “threats to the free and open development of AI and identifies the free speech risks associated with the federal government's current involvement in AI development.”  https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/12.18.24%20Censorships%20Next%20Frontier%20The%20Federal%20Governments%20Attempt%20to%20Control%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20to%20Suppress%20Free%20Speech.pdf  

1. “Key findings from the Committee and Select Subcommittee's investigation”: 

1. AI offers government bureaucrats and government-partnered intermediaries the ability to mass monitor and mass censor speech at unprecedented speed and scale. 

2. Government censorship of AI training data, algorithms, and outputs can lead to woke, biased, and inaccurate AI-generated results.

3. Regulations limiting private expressive uses of AI will impair AI development.

4. The Biden-Harris Administration is coercing AI developers to censor new models and funding AI-powered censorship tools.

5. Some American policymakers want to copy the European Union's onerous AI regulations.

2. Recommendations “to protect Americans' right to free expression”: 

1. No government involvement in private algorithm or dataset decisions on so-called "misinformation" or "bias."

2. No funding for censorship-related research.

3. No foreign collaboration on AI censorship regulation.

4. Avoid needless AI regulation that gives the government coercive leverage. 

1. 3.2.2024 - Comm: House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) Demands [for] Information on Biden Administration's Influence on Google's "Woke" Gemini AI - letter to Alphabet, Google’s and YouTube’s parent company, demanding documents and communications (re: “the creation, training, and deployment of its Gemini AI model, an artificial intelligence chatbot technology. The Committee is investigating how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced or colluded with Big Tech and other intermediaries to censor Americans' speech”). https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-03-02%20JDJ%20to%20Donovan%20re%20Alphabet.pdf; https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-demands-information-biden-administrations-influence-googles  

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND THE INTERNET

1. 12.18.2024 - Hearing: IP and Strategic Competition with China: Part IV – Patents, Standards, and Lawfare https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117764?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Artificial+intelligence%22%7D&s=5&r=3 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Thomas Cotter, Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law, University of Minnesota

2. Kent Baker, Head of IP Strategy, Litigation and Licensing, u-blox America, Inc. 

3. Mark Cohen, Edison Fellow, George Mason University, Antonin Scalia School of Law

4. Walter Copan, Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines 

2. Supporting Documentation; Written Questions, Answers: https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117764?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Artificial+intelligence%22%7D&s=5&r=3 

1. 4.10.2024 - A.I. and Intellectual Property: Part III – IP Protection for AI-Assisted Inventions and Creative Works https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property-part-iii-ip 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Claire Laporte, IP Fellow and Former Head of IP, Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. 

2. Joshua Landau, Senior Counsel for Innovation Policy. Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

3. Sandra Aistars, Clinical Professor, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

4. Kristelia Garcia, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

1. 2.2.2024 - Field Hearing (Los Angeles): AI and Intellectual Property: Part II – Identity in the Age of AI  https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property-part-ii-identity-age; video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDkMpI-VxS8 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Lainey Wilson, 2024 GRAMMY Nominee; 2023 CMA Entertainer of the Year; 2023 ACM Female Artist of the Year  

2. Harvey Mason jr., President & CEO, Recording Academy  

3. Christopher Mohr, President, Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) 

4. Jennifer Rothman, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, U.Penn Law School 

2. 5.17.2023 - Hearing: AI and Intellectual Property: Part I — Interoperability of AI and Copyright Law (topics: use of copyright-protected works in the training of generative AI models, copyright protection of works produced with generative AI, and the economic impact of generative AI on creators and creative industries). 

https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property-part-i 

1. Some Witnesses: 

1. Sy Damle, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP; former General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office  

2. Chris Callison-Burch, Associate Prof. of Computer & Information Science, U.Penn; Visiting Research Scientist, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

3. Jeffrey Sedlik, PLUS Coalition President/CEO; Member, Joint Committee on Ethics in AI  

1. HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE - 

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON CYBERSECURITY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND GOVERNMENT INNOVATION

1. 3.21.2024 - Hearing: “White House Overreach on AI” https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/white-house-overreach-on-ai/ 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Jennifer Huddleston, Technology Policy Research Fellow, Cato Institute

2. Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow on Technology and Innovation, R Street Institute

3. Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy, The Abundance Institute

4. Dr. Nicol Turner Lee (Minority Witness), Senior Fellow, Governance Studies and Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

2. 11.8.2023 - Hearing:  Advances in Deepfake Technology  https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/advances-in-deepfake-technology-2/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6pndEOE8_4 

1. Chair: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). 

1. Ref. National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) letter, issued on behalf of a bipartisan coalition of 54 state and territory attorneys general, urging Congress to study how AI can and is being used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material; and asking Congress to propose legislation that would protect children from those abuses. https://www.naag.org/press-releases/54-attorneys-general-call-on-congress-to-study-ai-and-its-harmful-effects-on-children/ 

2. Witnesses: 

1. Mounir Ibrahim, VP of Public Affairs and Impact, Truepic

2. Dr. David Doermann, Interim Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo 

3. Sam Gregory, Executive Director, WITNESS

4. Spencer Overton (Minority Witness), Professor of Law, George Washington University School of Law

3. 3.8.2023 - Hearing: Advances in AI: Are We Ready For a Tech Revolution?    https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/advances-in-ai-are-we-ready-for-a-tech-revolution/ 

1. Witnesses: 

1. Dr. Aleksander Mądry, Director, MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning and Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computing

2. Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chair, Special Competitive Studies Project

3. Dr. Scott Crowder, VP, IBM Quantum; CTO, IBM Systems, Technical Strategy and Transformation

4. Merve Hickok (Minority Witness), Senior Research Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy, Founder, AIethicist.org

1.  HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE - 

1. FULL COMMITTEE 

1. 12.4.2024 - Hearing: Innovation Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Finance https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=409414; https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409418; https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409419;  https://www.youtube.com/live/eyl2qzHCiW8  

1. Memorandum: Innovative Technologies in Financial Services https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20241204/117742/HHRG-118-BA00-20241204-SD002.pdf 

2. Witnesses: 

1. Denelle Dixon, CEO & Executive Director, Stellar Development Foundation

2. Avlok Kohli, CEO, AngelList

3. Nathan McCauley, CEO & Co-founder, Anchorage Digital

4. Henry Ward, CEO & Co-founder, Carta

5. Alan Butler, Executive Director, EPIC 

3. Legislation

1. H.Res. 1600, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the use of artificial intelligence in the financial services and housing industries https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ai_res_xml.pdf 

2. H.R. 10262, The AI Act of 2024 – a comprehensive study that directs the federal financial regulators to examine and report on current uses of AI technology in their respective markets, the benefits and risks of those uses, and internal use by agencies. https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ai_study_xml.pdf; further: https://fedscoop.com/house-financial-services-committee-ai-housing-bill/   

2. 7.23.2024 - Hearing: AI Innovation Explored: Insights into AI Applications in Financial Services and Housing https://www.youtube.com/live/s85zZ_9VLd4; https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409329  

1. Committee Memo: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20240723/117527/HHRG-118-BA00-20240723-SD002.pdf 

2. Witnesses: 

1. John Zecca, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Legal, Risk and Regulatory Officer, NASDAQ

2. Ondrej Linda, Senior Director, Personalization AI, Zillow

3. Elizabeth Osborne, Chief Operations Officer, Great Lakes Credit Union

4. Frederick Reynolds, Deputy General Counsel for Regulatory Legal and Chief Compliance Officer, FIS Global

5. Vijay Karunamurthy, Chief Technology Officer, Scale AI

6. Lisa Rice, President and CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance

3. Legislation: 

1. H.Res.___, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the use of artificial intelligence in the financial services and housing industries

2. H.R. 5808, the "Preventing Deep Fake Scams Act"

3. H.R. 7781, the "Artificial Intelligence Practices, Logistics, Actions, and Necessities Act"

4. H.R. ___, a bill To require the Federal financial agencies to carry out a study and report on standardized descriptions for vendor-provided artificial intelligence systems, and for other purposes

1. BIPARTISAN WORKING GROUP ON A.I. - led by Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion Subcommittee Chair French Hill (AR-02) and Subcommittee Ranking Member Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08):

1. 8.16.2024 - Comm: Response to Treasury’s Request for Information on AI in Financial Services (Current and Potential Uses of AI in the Financial Services Sector, Financial Firm products, Data Privacy, AI Regulatory Frameworks) https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409346; https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2024-08-14_fsc_comment_letter_to_treasuryrfi__ai_final.pdf  

2. 7.18.2024 - Staff Report: AI Innovation Explored: Insights into AI Applications in Financial Services and Housing https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bipartisan_working_group_on_ai_staff_report.pdf 

3. 3.22.2024 - Roundtable: Capital markets

4. 1.31.2024 and 2.6.2024 - Roundtables: Financial Regulators 

5. 1.11.2024 - Working Group Announced:  

1. Purpose: to continue the work of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the 116th and 117th Congresses, considering: how AI “is impacting the financial services and housing industries, including the development of new products and services, fraud prevention, compliance efficiency, and the enhancement of supervisory and regulatory tools…[and] may impact the financial services workforce”; “how existing regulation addresses the use of AI”; and “how lawmakers can ensure that any new regulations consider both the potential benefits and risks associated with AI.”) https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409108 

2. Republican Members: Chairman Patrick McHenry (NC-10), Rep. French Hill (AR-02), Rep. Young Kim (CA-40), Rep. Mike Flood (NE-01), Rep. Zach Nunn (IA-03), Rep. Erin Houchin (IN-09)

3. Democratic Members: Ranking Member Maxine Waters (CA-43), Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Rep. Sean Casten (IL-06), Rep. Brittany Pettersen (CO-07)  

2. SUBCOMMITTEE ON DIGITAL ASSETS, FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY, AND A.I.  

1. New!  2.11.2025 - Hearing:  A Golden Age of Digital Assets: Charting a Path Forward  https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=409452;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLKGOdpJ10c 

https://www.congress.gov/event/119th-congress/house-event/117872?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Artificial+intelligence%22%7D&s=5&r=1 

1. Purpose: to “examine existing use cases for digital assets and blockchain technology and explore why this technology holds enormous potential to revolutionize the American economy,” “identify how the digital asset ecosystem was stymied by the Biden Administration, which led to fewer consumer protections and pushed innovation overseas,” and “serve as a forum to discuss what legislation is necessary to provide strong customer protections and allow the ecosystem to flourish in the United States.” Memo (listing legislation considered): https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA21/20250211/117872/HHRG-119-BA21-20250211-SD002.pdf 

2. Chair: Bryan Steil (WI-01) https://financialservices.house.gov/119th-congress-subcommittees/subcommittee-on-digital-assets-financial-technology-and-artificial-intelligence.htm 

3. Witnesses: 

1. Jonathan Jachym, Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Policy & Government Relations, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

2. Ji Hun Kim, President and Acting CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation

3. Coy Garrison, Partner, Steptoe LLP

4. Jose Fernandez da Ponte, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies, PayPal  

5. Timothy Massad, Research Fellow and Director of Digital Assets Policy Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

1. HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE - 

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON CYBER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, AND INNOVATION

1. 3.22.2024 - Hearing: The Technology and AI Fight for 21st Century Operations in the Department of Defense (DOD priorities for digital modernization and transformation, AI, information technology, and cybersecurity) https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings/citi-hearing-technology-and-ai-fight-21st-century-operations-department-defense 

1. Witnesses: 

1. John Sherman, Chief Information Officer, Department of Defense

2. Dr. Craig Martell, Chief Digital and AI Officer, Department of Defense

3. Lieutenant General Robert Skinner, Director, Defense Information Systems Agency

2. 3.12.2021 - Hearing: Final Recommendations of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings/final-recommendations-national-security-commission-artificial-intelligence 

1. HOUSE VETERANS’ AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - 

1. SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH 

1. 2.15.2024 - Hearing: AI at VA: Exploring its Current State and Future Possibilities https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116823?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22artificial+intelligence%22%7D&s=5&r=5 

1. PROPOSED AI LEGISLATION: 119th CONGRESS (2025-2026):

1. H.R.1027 - To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require disclosures with respect to robocalls using A.I. and to provide for enhanced penalties for certain violations involving A.I. voice or text message impersonation, and for other purposes.

1. Sponsor: Sorensen, Eric [Rep.-D-IL-17]; Cosponsors: (3)

2. Committees: House - Energy and Commerce

3. Latest Action: 2/06/2025 - Introduced; Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H519)  

2. H.R.334 - To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish technical and procedural standards for artificial or prerecorded voice systems created through generative A.I., and for other purposes.

1. Sponsor: Allen, Rick W. [Rep.-R-GA-12]  

2. Committees: House - Energy and Commerce

3. Latest Action: House - 1/13/2025 - Introduced; Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 

3. H.R.193 - Maintaining Innovation and Safe Technologies Act 

1. Sponsor: Schweikert, David [Rep.-R-AZ-1]  

2. Committees: 1/3/2025 - Introduced; Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and also to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.

4. S.501 - A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a strategy for public health preparedness and response to A.I. threats, and for other purposes.

1. Sponsor: Budd, Ted [Sen.-R-NC]; Cosponsors: (1)

2. Committees: Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

3. 2/10/2025 - Introduced 

5. .321 - A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit United States persons from advancing A.I. capabilities within the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

1. Sponsor: Hawley, Josh [Sen.-R-MO]  

2. Committees: Senate - Judiciary

3. Latest Action: Senate - 1/29/2025 Introduced; Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

1. PROPOSED AI LEGISLATION: 118th CONGRESS (2023-2024):

1. S.4178 - Future of Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2024

1. Sponsor: Cantwell, Maria [Sen.-D-WA]; Cosponsors: (8)

2. Committees: Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation

3. Latest Action: Senate - 12/18/2024 - Introduced; Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 725. (All Actions)  

2. S.5616 - Preserving American Dominance in Artificial Intelligence Act of 2024

1. Sponsor: Romney, Mitt [Sen.-R-UT]; Cosponsors: (4)

2. Committees: Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation

3. Latest Action: Senate - 12/19/2024 - Introduced; Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

3. S.5620 - A bill to require the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study on the use of commercial-off-the-shelf products and artificial intelligence technologies by the I.R.S.

1. Sponsor: Warner, Mark R. [Sen.-D-VA]; Cosponsors: (1)

2. Latest Action: Senate - 12/19/2024 - Introduced; Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

4. S.3312 - Artificial Intelligence Research, Innovation, and Accountability Act of 2024

1. Sponsor: Thune, John [Sen.-R-SD]; Cosponsors: (7)

2. Committees: Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation

3. Latest Action: Senate - 12/18/2024 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 723. (11/15/2023 - Introduced) 

5. S. 3478 - Eliminating Bias in Algorithmic Systems Act of 2023 - requires agencies that use, fund, or oversee algorithms to establish offices of civil rights, issue reports detailing specific algorithmic harms, and establish an interagency working group on covered algorithms and civil rights. 

1. Sponsor: Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) 

2. Status: Introduced in the Senate 12/12/2023; Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

6. H.R.6466 - AI Labeling Act of 2023 - To require disclosures for AI-generated content, and for other purposes. 

“IN GENERAL.—Each generative artificial intelligence system that, using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce, produces image, video, audio, or multimedia AI-generated content shall include on such AI-generated content a clear and conspicuous disclosure that… (B)(i) include[s] a clear and conspicuous notice, as appropriate for the medium of the content, that identifies the content as AI-generated content. (ii) The output's metadata information shall include an identification of the content as being AI-generated content, the identity of the tool used to create the content, and the date and time the content was created. (iii) The disclosure shall, to the extent technically feasible, be permanent or unable to be easily removed by subsequent users.” 

1. Sponsor: Rep. Thomas Kean (R-NJ)

2. Status: Introduced 11/21/2023; Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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. 

1. H.R. 6149 - Protecting Kids on Social Media Act - requires social media platforms to verify the age of their users, prohibits the use of algorithmic recommendation systems on individuals under age 18, requires parental or guardian consent for social media users under age 18, and prohibits users who are under age 13 from accessing social media platforms.

1. Sponsor: Rep. John James (R-MI)

2. Status: Introduced in the House on 11/03/2023; referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce. 

2. S. 3050 - Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act of 2023 - requires financial services agencies to report on gaps in knowledge on AI, directs the Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer of the Defense Department to create a bug bounty program for foundational AI models in defense applications, and requires a vulnerability analysis study for AI-enabled military applications.

1. Sponsor: Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD)

2. Status: Introduced in the Senate 10/17/2023; Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

3. H.R.5808 - Preventing Deep Fake Scams Act - To establish the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Services Sector to report to Congress on issues related to artificial intelligence in the financial services sector, and for other purposes. 

1. Sponsor: Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7)

2. Status: Introduced 9/28/2023; Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

4. H.R.5628 - Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2023 - To direct the Federal Trade Commission to require impact assessments of automated decision systems and augmented critical decision processes, and for other purposes. 

1. Sponsor: Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9)

2. Status: Introduced 9/21/2023; Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.  

5. S.2892 - Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2023 - To direct the Federal Trade Commission to require impact assessments of automated decision systems and augmented critical decision processes, and for other purposes.

1. Sponsor: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) 

2. Status:  9/21/2023 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

6. H.R.5586 - DEEPFAKES Accountability Act - Defending Each and Every Person from False Appearances by Keeping Exploitation Subject to Accountability Act of 2023 - To protect national security against the threats posed by deepfake technology and to provide legal recourse to victims of harmful deepfakes. Would require a digital watermark on all AI-generated images and videos. 

1. Sponsors: Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9)  

2. Status: 9/20/2023 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary, and to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security.  

7. S.2770 - Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act - To prohibit the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes. (Bill would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to generate deceptive content that falsely depicts federal election candidates in political ads.)

1. Sponsors: Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Christopher Coons (D-DE), Susan Collins (R-ME).  

2. Status: 9/12/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.  

8. S.2765 - Advisory for AI-Generated Content Act - To require a watermark for AI-generated materials, and for other purposes. Also: instructs the Federal Trade Commission to consult with the Federal Communications Commission, U.S. Attorney General, and Secretary of Homeland Security to issue regulations for the watermarks within 180 days of passage to take effect one year post-publication. 

1. Sponsor: Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) 

2. Status: 9/12/2023 – Introduced in the Senate. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

9. S.2691 - AI Labeling Act of 2023 - To require disclosures for AI-generated content, and for other purposes.

1. Sponsor: Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)  

2. Status:  7/27/2023 - Introduced; Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

10.  S.2714 - CREATE AI Act of 2023 - To establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, and for other purposes.  

1. Sponsors: Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Cosponsors: Senators Todd Young (R-IN); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Mike Rounds (R-SD) 

2. Status: 7/27/2023 - Introduced; Read twice, referred to the Sen Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

11.  H.R.3831 - AI Disclosure Act of 2023 - To require generative AI to disclose output that has been generated by artificial intelligence, and for other purposes. 

1. Sponsor: Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15)

2. Status: Introduced 6/05/2023: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce; 06/09/2023 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.

12. S.1596 - REAL Political Advertisements Act - A bill to…provide further transparency and accountability for the use of content that is generated by A.I. in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes 

1. Sponsor: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Cosponsors: Cory A. Booker, Michael F. Bennet

2. Status: 5/15/2023 - Introduced; read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

13. H.R. 3044 - REAL Political Advertisements Act -  

1. Sponsor: Yvette D. Clarke (Rep.-D-NY-9)  

2. Status: 5/02/2023 - Introduced; Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

14. H.Res.66 - Expressing support for Congress to focus on artificial intelligence. 

1. Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted (D-CA-36)

2. Status: 1/26/2023 - Introduced; referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. 

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

1. OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE: Trump Administration (January 20, 2025 - ) 

1. EXECUTIVE ORDERS RELATING TO A.I.: 

1. New!  Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions - EO 14148 (January 20, 2025) - Sec. 2.  revoked Orders and Actions including (inter alia) Executive Order 14110 of October 30, 2023 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence). https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/28/2025-01901/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions 

2. New!  Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence - EO 14179 (January 23, 2025) - “It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.” https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02172/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence. Specifically: 

1. A.I. Action Plan: 

1. Within 180 days, “relevant” agencies must create an “action plan to achieve” the EO’s AI policy; 

2. The plan is to be developed by the “Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST), the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), in coordination with the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB Director), and the heads of such executive departments and agencies (agencies) as the APST and APNSA deem relevant.” 

2. Review, amend policy - 

1. These heads of agencies must immediately review all policies, directives, regulations, and other actions taken under (Biden’s now-revoked) EO 14110 to identify actions inconsistent with the EO’s policy objectives. Inconsistent actions will be suspended, revised, or rescinded as appropriate to ensure that federal guidelines and regulations do not impede the nation’s role as an AI leader.

2. The OMB Director, in coordination with the APST, must revise OMB memoranda listed below “as necessary to make them consistent” with the new AI policy:

1. OMB Memorandum M-24-10, “Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence,” issued in March 2024, which directed the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to submit a biennial AI compliance plan to OMB.

2. OMB Memorandum M-24-18, “Advancing the Responsible Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence in Government,” issued in October 2024. 

3. Fact sheet: REMOVING BARRIERS TO AMERICAN AI INNOVATION (January 23, 2025): https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-action-to-enhance-americas-ai-leadership/ 

1. The “Biden AI Executive Order established unnecessarily burdensome requirements for companies developing and deploying AI that would stifle private sector innovation and threaten American technological leadership.”

2. “[D]evelopment of AI systems must be free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas.”

4. Implementation: 

1. National Science Foundation* - Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan (2.6.2025)(*Issued by NSF’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)): AI-related topics can include: data centers, hardware and chips, energy consumption/efficiency, open source development, model development, explainability and assurance of AI model outputs and cybersecurity. 

1. ADVISORS: 

1. David Sacks – “AI & Crypto Czar”; Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) 

2. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) – Created by Presidential Action to “advise the President on matters involving science, technology, education, and innovation policy” and “provide the President with scientific and technical information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the American economy, the American worker, national and homeland security, and other topics” (January 23, 2025) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/presidents-council-of-advisors-on-science-and-technology/  (also revokes Executive Order 14007 of January 27, 2021 (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology), as amended by Executive Order 14109 of September 29, 2023 (Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders)). 

3. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) – Established by Section 5104(d)(1) of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (signed into law by President Trump in 2019) provided draft “AI policy issues and proposed solutions” to the White House, emphasizing: (1) innovation in AI research and development, (2) advancing American industry with AI, (3) workforce development for an AI-enabled economy, and (4) alignment of AI with American values. https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/noindex/2025/01/24/NAIAC_New_Administration_Report-Draft_2025.01.22.pdf   

1. White House - Biden Administration (January 20, 2021 - January 20, 2025): 

1. Executive Orders: 

1. Rescinded! Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence - E.O. 14110 (issued October 30, 2023) - addresses “AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and competition, advances American leadership around the world,” etc. 

1. Published at:   https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/; and https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24283/safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-11-01/pdf/2023-24283.pdf.  

2. Synthesis: issue-specific outlines issued/available to clients. 

2. NOTE: Builds on the Previous (Trump I) Administration Policy: 

1. Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government - E.O. 13960 (December 8, 2020) - Encouraging ongoing adoption of AI throughout the Federal Government. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/08/2020-27065/promoting-the-use-of-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence-in-the-federal-government. Building on – 

2. Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence - E.O. 13859 (February 11, 2019) – Overseeing and implementing U.S. national AI strategy. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/02/14/2019-02544/maintaining-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence; https://www.ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/National-Artificial-Intelligence-Initiative-Act-of-2020.pdf). The Federal Government’s “American AI Initiative” – directed at, inter alia, “foster[ing] public trust and confidence in AI technologies” and protecting civil liberties and American values, through activities coordinated by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (“Select Committee”), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/). 

1. Plans and Frameworks: 

1. Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights - https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/ 

2. National AI R&D Strategic Plan (May 23, 2023) -  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/23/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-new-steps-to-advance-responsible-artificial-intelligence-research-development-and-deployment/ 

3. NIST AI Risk Management Framework (January 26, 2023 [also see NIST, below]) - https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework 

4. National AI Research Resource Roadmap (January 24, 2023) - https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/01/24/national-artificial-intelligence-research-resource-task-force-releases-final-report/ 

2. Advisors: 

1. White House Artificial Intelligence Council - established by the October 30, 2023, E.O. on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (above); chaired by the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, with members representing most offices of the Executive Branch.

2. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) – launched April 2022 (in the Commerce Dept, pursuant to the 2022 Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act); advises the U.S. President and the National AI Initiative Office (NAIIO) on topics related to the National AI Initiative. https://www.ai.gov/naiac/#ABOUT-NAIAC; Members: https://www.ai.gov/naiac/naiac-member-biographies/   

1. Some Key Working Groups:

1. Working Group on Generative & NextGen AI: Safety and Assurance Members: Jack Clark, David Danks (Vice Chair), Paula Goldman (Chair), Ashley Llorens, Haniyeh Mahmoudian, Swami Sivasubramanian 

2. Working Group on Regulation and Executive Action: Published NAIAC Non-Decisional Statement – Rationales, Mechanisms, and Challenges to Regulating AI: A Concise Guide and Explanation (Evaluating different forms US Govt AI oversight might take): https://www.ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Rationales-Mechanisms-Challenges-Regulating-AI-NAIAC-Non-Decisional.pdf 

2. Committees/Subcommittees

1. AI Futures – Preparedness, Opportunities, and Competitiveness (Chairs: Ramayya Krishnan, Haniyeh Mahmoudian)

2. AI in Work and the Workforce (Chairs: Amanda Ballantyne, Trooper Sanders) 

3. Education/Awareness (Chairs: Susan Gonzales, Reggie Townsend) 

4. International Collaboration (Chairs: Victoria Espinel, Navrina Singh) 

5. Safety, Trust and Rights (Chairs: Janet Haven, Daniel Ho, Christina Montgomery) 

3. Key Docs: https://ai.gov/naiac/ 

1. Reports/Recommendations: Year One Report: https://ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NAIAC-Report-Year1.pdf 

2. Non-Decisional Statements: Rationales, Mechanisms, and Challenges to Regulating AI: A Concise Guide and Explanation (Evaluating different forms US Govt AI oversight might take): https://www.ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Rationales-Mechanisms-Challenges-Regulating-AI-NAIAC-Non-Decisional.pdf 

4. NAIAC MEETINGS: https://ai.gov/naiac/ 

1. May 2, 2024 - Public Meeting (Hybrid).  

2. April 16, 2024 - NAIAC Full Committee Meeting - for informational briefings by: 

1. AI Futures Group - Preparedness, Opportunities, and Competitiveness Working Group: “AI for Science" panel.

2. AI in Work and the Workforce Working Groups - “AI Transition for Workers" panel. https://www.nist.gov/itl/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee-naiac 

3. April 5, 2024 - Law Enforcement Subcommittee Meeting - to report the working groups' findings, identify actionable recommendations, discuss updates on goals and deliverables. https://www.nist.gov/itl/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee-naiac 

4. February 22, 2024 - Open Meeting: working group updates and recommendations.  

5. January 19, 2024 - Open Meeting: Law Enforcement Subcommittee briefing (web conference and in-person, Miami, FL) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/08/2024-00116/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee-law-enforcement-subcommittee; https://ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NAIAC-Agenda-01192024.pdf   

6. December 13, 2023 - Meeting #12. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/24/2023-25954/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NAIAC-Agenda-12132023.pdf; https://vimeo.com/event/3935067  

7. November 15, 2023 - Meeting #11.  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24045/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://vimeo.com/event/3848246  

1. Working Groups described current and anticipated work projects, including (inter alia) plans for meetings in 2024; soliciting input from members of the public - esp concerning AI+Science (opportunities, risks); AI Safety (approaches to evaluating and testing safety); additional focus on AI+Education, LLMs in the workplace; etc. Will also focus on issues coming out of the AI Executive Order)  

2. Recommendation to the White House on AI Literacy. 

8. October 19, 2023 - Meeting #10. Reporting working group findings, identifying actionable recommendations, and receiving updates from the NAIAC Law Enforcement Subcommittee. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/03/2023-21808/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://vimeo.com/event/3784739   

9. September 29, 2023 - Meeting #9. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/12/2023-19640/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://vimeo.com/event/3618998 

1. Briefing: AI Futures: Sustaining Innovation in Next Gen AI Working Group 

2. Invited Remarks: 

1. Priya Donti, Co-founder/Executive Director, Climate Change AI 

2. Isaac Kohane, Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

3. Julie Kientz, Professor/Chair, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington 

4. Salman Khan, Founder/CEO, Khan Academy 

5. Aaron Cooper, VP, Global Policy, BSA | The Software Alliance 

6. Keith Kupferschmid, CEO, Copyright Alliance 

7. Catherine Stihler, Creative Commons

10. September 12, 2023 - Meeting #8. NAIAC Law Enforcement Subcommittee Meeting; Working Group Updates; Discussion re: Recent Publications https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/12/2023-19656/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee-law-enforcement-subcommittee; https://vimeo.com/event/3618998  

11. August 3, 2023 - Meeting #7. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/07/19/2023-14965/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee

1. Briefings - 

1. AI Futures: Sustaining Innovation in Next Gen AI Working Group.  

2. Generative & NextGen AI: Safety and Assurance Working Group   

2. Invited Remarks by: 

1. Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal 

2. Francesca Rossi, IBM 

3. Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley

4. Sam Gregory, Witness  

5. Abby Kukura, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) 

6. Percy Liang, Stanford University  

7. Joelle Pineau, Meta    

12. July 19, 2023 - Meeting #6.  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/07/03/2023-14025/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://vimeo.com/event/3543414 

1. Working Group Chairs discuss their NAIAC working groups’ work to date and goals on materials they intend to create and discussions they will foster in Year 2. 

13. June 20-27, 2023 - Meeting #5. MEETINGS SERIES -  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/07/2023-12164/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee 

1. Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/1_neqyihky/embed/dynamic 

1. Invited Experts: 

1. American Association of People with Disabilities 

2. Asian Americans Advancing Justice

3. Hispanic Technology & Telecommunications Partnership 

4. Human Rights Campaign 

5. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 

6. National Fair Housing Alliance 

7. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

2. Thursday, June 22, 2023 https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/1_br83t4e5/embed/dynamic 

1. Invited Experts: 

1. Algorithmic Justice League

2. American Civil Liberties Union

3. Center For Democracy and Technology

4. Creative Commons

5. Fight for the Future

6. Greenlining

7. Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

8. Legal Defense Fund

9. The People's Tech Project

3. Tuesday, June 27, 2023 

1. Invited Experts: Session I https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/1_47f1l9nl/embed/dynamic 

1. LatinX in AI  

2. Black in AI  

3. Queer In AI 

4. Women in AI

2. Invited Experts: Session II https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/1_wxfcaxiv/embed/dynamic 

1. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

2. American Federation of Teachers

3. Communications Workers of America Union

4. Department of Professional Employees AFL-CIO

5. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

6. International Federation Professional and Technical Engineers AFL-CIO CLC

7. Wessel Group

14. April 25, 2023 - Meeting #4. Discuss the Committee's effort to develop its year one report that will be presented to the President and National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/27/2023-06271/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://www.nist.gov/video/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee-naiac-meeting-4 

1. February 10, 2023 - Meeting #3. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/06/2023-00026/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/1_cps8ur38/embed/dynamic   

1. Objectives: updates from the Committee working groups; discussion re: forming actionable recommendations.

2. Presentations by Working Groups, including: 

1. Leadership in Trustworthy AI Working Group 

2. Research & Development Working Group

3. Workforce and Opportunity Working Group  

4. U.S. Leadership & Competitiveness Working Group  

5. International Cooperation Working Group 

2. October 12, 2022 - Meeting #2: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/26/2022-20801/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uq-CydVwLDw  

1. Field Hearings on Topics including: 

1. Panel 1 – Building Trustworthiness into Artificial Intelligence 

2. Panel 2 – Advancing U.S. Leadership in AI Research & Development 

3. Panel 3 – Growing Opportunity for the U.S. Workforce in the Age of AI 

4. Panel 4 – Ensuring U.S. Government Coordination on AI to Lead and Compete Globally  

5. Panel 5 – Expanding International Collaboration 

2. Public Comments: https://www.nist.gov/artificial-intelligence/comments-received-public-naiac-meeting-october-12-13-2022 

3. May 4, 2022 - Meeting #1: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/04/19/2022-08319/national-artificial-intelligence-advisory-committee; https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uq-CydVwLDw  

1. Voluntary Commitments to Manage Risks Posed by AI:

1. September 12, 2023 - Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI, including: Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability. Pledge includes: “Earning the Public’s Trust - The companies commit to developing robust technical mechanisms to ensure that users know when content is AI-generated, such as a watermarking system. This action enables creativity and productivity with AI to flourish but reduces the dangers of fraud and deception.”  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/12/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-secures-voluntary-commitments-from-eight-additional-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-manage-the-risks-posed-by-ai/ 

2. July 21, 2023 - Voluntary Pledges by “Leading AI Companies” to develop technical solutions, “as the Administration moves urgently on regulatory action”: WH secured voluntary commitments from “seven leading AI companies” – Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI – committing to, inter alia, developing watermarking tools to help combat misinformation and misuse of AI-generated content.  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/21/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-secures-voluntary-commitments-from-leading-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-manage-the-risks-posed-by-ai/ 

3. Significance: White House: “As we advance this agenda at home, the Administration continues to engage on these commitments and on AI policy with allies and partners. In developing these commitments, the Administration consulted with Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, the UAE, and the UK. These commitments complement Japan’s leadership of the G-7 Hiroshima Process, the United Kingdom’s Summit on AI Safety, and India’s leadership as Chair of the Global Partnership on AI.” (Supra). 

1. EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCIES:  

1. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT 

1. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS): 

1. 1.13.2025 - interim rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to regulate AI diffusion. Effective immediately (compliance is required May 15, 2025), the Rule introduces new controls on advanced AI model weights; revises regulations on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs); and updates license exceptions and data center authorizations. Objective: limiting proliferation of advanced AI models through global licensing requirements, security conditions, and compliance measures, to safeguard U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.

2. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST): developing (in accordance with E.O. 13859) AI Technical Standards and Related Tools, a Risk Management Framework, and an Advisory Committee  -  

1. U.S. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INSTITUTE (U.S. AISI) and related CONSORTIUM: https://www.nist.gov/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-safety-institute   

1. Working Groups: 

1. Risk Management for Generative AI 

2. Synthetic Content 

3. Capability Evaluations 

4. Red-Teaming 

5. Safety & Security 

2. Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) - released 1.26.2023 (following an initial 7/292021 RFI seeking input; three public workshops; and public drafts), at: https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework; https://csrc.nist.gov/presentations/2022/ai-risk-management-framework; with companion NIST AI RMF Playbook; AI RMF Explainer Video, Roadmap, etc. 

1. Summary: The AI RMF - an AI corollary to NIST’s frameworks for managing cybersecurity and privacy risks (e.g., NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) - used by organizations worldwide (since 2017 - mandatory for federal agencies to use for improving cybersecurity risk management programs). The AI RMF = voluntary tool to help organizations incorporate trustworthiness considerations into the design, development, use, and evaluation of AI products, with risk management programs that guard against potential AI-related harms. 

3. Trustworthy & Responsible AI Resource Center (launched 3.30.2023): https://airc.nist.gov/Home 

1. NIST AI Public Working Groups:  https://airc.nist.gov/Home 

1. Generative AI Public Working Group - to develop guidance for managing the risk of generative AI systems - https://airc.nist.gov/generative_ai_wg (est. 7.20.23); Guidance For Digital Content Provenance. 

2. Evaluations of AI systems - building an evaluation program to understand AI risks and impacts, look at technical robustness and societal implications).

3. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) - “AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment” seeks feedback on what policies can support the development of AI audits, assessments, certifications and other mechanisms to create earned trust in AI systems. https://www.ntia.gov/issues/artificial-intelligence/request-for-comments 

1. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION: 

1. September 26, 2024 - Deceptive AI in Campaign/Election Materials: 

1. In response to a July 13, 2023, Public Citizen Petition for Rulemaking (“Petition”) to the Commission, asking it to undertake a rulemaking “to clarify that the law against `fraudulent misrepresentation' (52 U.S.C. 30124) applies to deliberately deceptive AI-produced content in campaign communications” – the FEC “decided not to initiate a rulemaking at this time and will instead proceed with any application of 52 U.S.C. 30124 to specific technologies on a case-by-case basis.”  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/26/2024-21979/artificial-intelligence-in-campaign-ads; https://www.fec.gov/updates/fec-makes-public-draft-documents-regarding-artificial-intelligence-in-campaign-ads/  (Under existing law, can pursue deceptive A.I. in political ads.)

1. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: 

1. ENFORCEMENT: Has been pursuing AI-gen companies for discrimination, false advertising, fraudulent behavior (already authorized under the FTC Act). 

1. Deceptive claims about AI tools 

1. New!  February 11, 2025 - FTC Finalizes Order with DoNotPay That Prohibits Deceptive 'AI Lawyer' Claims, Imposes Monetary Relief, and Requires Notice to Past Subscribers: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/02/ftc-finalizes-order-donotpay-prohibits-deceptive-ai-lawyer-claims-imposes-monetary-relief-requires   

2. July 9, 2024 - FTC Order Will Ban NGL Labs and its Founders from Offering Anonymous Messaging Apps to Kids Under 18 and Halt Deceptive Claims Around AI Content Moderation: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/ftc-order-will-ban-ngl-labs-its-founders-offering-anonymous-messaging-apps-kids-under-18-halt 

3. January 3, 2025 - FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines  https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-order-requires-online-marketer-pay-1-million-deceptive-claims-its-ai-product-could-make-websites 

4. December 3, 2024 - FTC Takes Action Against IntelliVision Technologies for Deceptive Claims About its Facial Recognition Software https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/ftc-takes-action-against-intellivision-technologies-deceptive-claims-about-its-facial-recognition 

5. November 26, 2024 - FTC Takes Action Against Evolv Technologies for Deceiving Users About its AI-Powered Security Screening Systems https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/11/ftc-takes-action-against-evolv-technologies-deceiving-users-about-its-ai-powered-security-screening 

6. September 25, 2024 - FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes: With Operation AI Comply, agency announces five law enforcement actions against operations that use AI hype or sell AI technology that can be used in deceptive and unfair ways https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-announces-crackdown-deceptive-ai-claims-schemes    

2. POLICY / OUTREACH:: 

1. New! 1.17.2025 - The FTC Is on the Front Lines of Tech Innovation & Regulation https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2025/01/ftc-front-lines-tech-innovation-regulation 

2. New! 1.3.2025 - AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2025/01/ai-risk-consumer-harm  

3. New!  1.2025 - Partnerships Between Cloud Service Providers and AI Developers: FTC Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments 6(b) Study (FTC warning concerning risks in big tech AI partnerships): 

1. Report:  https://www.ftc.gov/reports/ftc-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-6b-study https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p246201_aipartnerships6breport_redacted_0.pdf; (The last two years have seen the creation or expansion of three partnerships between the largest cloud service providers (“CSPs”) and prominent AI developers: Microsoft-OpenAI, Amazon-Anthropic, and Google-Anthropic. These partnerships have included more than $20 billion in cumulative financial investment[1] and substantial non-monetary value exchange.[2] Notably, each of the three CSP partners also develops AI models and products.”)

2. Behind the FTC’s 6(b) Report on Large AI Partnerships & Investments https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2025/01/behind-ftcs-6b-report-large-ai-partnerships-investments 

4. 10.4.2023 – Roundtable: Assessing Public harm from Generative AI - Creative Economy and Generative AI (to better understand the impact of generative artificial intelligence on creative fields).  

1. Speakers: FTC Chair Lina M. Khan; FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter; and Madeleine Varner, Office of Technology, FTC; 

2. Roundtable Guests:  Bradley M. Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy; Jen Jacobsen, Artist Rights Alliance (Others = Artists, Actors, Musicians, Writers/Editors).  

5. 6.16.2022 - Report to Congress: Combatting Online Harms Through Innovation Federal Trade Commission: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Combatting%20Online%20Harms%20Through%20Innovation%3B%20Federal%20Trade%20Commission%20Report%20to%20Congress.pdf (report to Congress on laws that would “advance the adoption and use of artificial intelligence to address” certain online harms). 

1. DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY:  Excludes internal/non-consumer activity 

1. Annual Study/Reporting obligations 

2. DEPT OF DEFENSE: Excludes internal/non-consumer activity 

1. DOD (gen): 

1. Study: DeepFakes’ Effects on Servicemembers, families – Section 589F of the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (P.L. 116-283)(intelligence assessment of the threat posed by deep fakes, the maturity of the technology, how it might be used to conduct information operations). 

2. Tracking: foreign weaponization of deepfakes and deepfake technology. 50 USCS § 3369a.  

3. Prize competition - for tech that detects and watermarks generative AI, based upon provision in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s approved language for the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (to be steered by the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering through 2025). https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_ndaa_bill_text.pdf;  

2. DARPA - SemaFor program funding development of photo-video integrity systems with specific media forensics objectives.  

1. National Science Foundation (NSF) - 

1. National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes;

2. Department of Health and Human Services - 

1. National Institutes of Health (NIH) - https://datascience.nih.gov/artificial-intelligence 

2. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/hhs-ai-strategy.pdf  

3. Department of Energy (DOE) - TBD