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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 4495 (Reported in Senate) — To enable safe, responsible, and agile procurement, development, and use of artificial intelligence by the Federal Go... · Sec. 6

Sec. 6. Agency governance of artificial intelligence

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The head of an agency shall— ensure the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence, including by— articulating a clear vision of what the head of the agency wants to achieve by developing, procuring or obtaining, or using artificial intelligence; ensuring the agency develops, procures, obtains, or uses artificial intelligence that follows the principles of trustworthy artificial intelligence in government set forth under Executive Order 13960 (85 Fed. Reg. 78939; relating to promoting the use of trustworthy artificial intelligence in Federal Government) and the principles for safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence in government set forth under section 2 of Executive Order 14110 (88 Fed. Reg. 75191; relating to the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence); testing, validating, and monitoring artificial intelligence and the use case-specific performance of artificial intelligence, among others, to— ensure all use of artificial intelligence is appropriate to and improves the effectiveness of the mission of the agency; guard against bias in data collection, use, and dissemination; ensure reliability, fairness, and transparency; and protect against impermissible discrimination; developing, adopting, and applying a suitable enterprise risk management framework approach to artificial intelligence, incorporating the requirements under this Act; continuing to develop a workforce that— understands the strengths and weaknesses of artificial intelligence, including artificial intelligence embedded in agency data systems and operations; is aware of the benefits and risk of artificial intelligence; is able to provide human oversight for the design, implementation, and end uses of artificial intelligence; and is able to review and provide redress for erroneous decisions made in the course of artificial intelligence-assisted processes; and ensuring implementation of the requirements under section 8(a) for the identification and evaluation of risks posed by the deployment of artificial intelligence in agency use cases; designate a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, whose duties shall include— ensuring appropriate use of artificial intelligence; coordinating agency use of artificial intelligence; promoting artificial intelligence innovation; managing the risks of use of artificial intelligence; supporting the head of the agency with developing the risk classification system required under section 7(a) and complying with other requirements of this Act; and supporting agency personnel leading the procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence to comply with the requirements under this Act; and form and convene an Artificial Intelligence Governance Board, as described in subsection (b), which shall coordinate and govern artificial intelligence issues across the agency.
Each Artificial Intelligence Governance Board (referred to in this subsection as Board ) of an agency shall be chaired by the Deputy Secretary of the agency or equivalent official and vice-chaired by the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of the agency. Neither the chair nor the vice-chair may assign or delegate these roles to other officials. The Board shall, at a minimum, include representatives comprised of senior agency officials from operational components, if relevant, program officials responsible for implementing artificial intelligence, and officials responsible for information technology, data, privacy, civil rights and civil liberties, human capital, procurement, finance, legal counsel, and customer experience.
An agency may rely on an existing governance body to fulfill the requirements of this subsection if the body satisfies or is adjusted to satisfy the leadership and representation requirements of paragraphs
(1)and (2). The head of an agency may designate as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer an existing official within the agency, including the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Information Officer, or other official with relevant or complementary authorities and responsibilities, if such existing official has expertise in artificial intelligence and meets the requirements of this section. Beginning on the date that is 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, an agency shall not develop or procure or obtain artificial intelligence prior to completing the requirements under paragraphs
(2)and
(3)of subsection (a).
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  • 85 FR 78939
  • 88 FR 75191
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