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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 321 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit United States persons from advancing artificial intelligence capab... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Definitions

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In this Act: The terms artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence have the meanings given those terms in section 2741 of title 18, United States Code, as added by section 3. The term artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual property means technology or intellectual property that could be used to contribute to artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence capabilities. The term Chinese entity of concern has the meaning given the term in section 2741 of title 18, United States Code, as added by section 4.
The term interest , with respect to an entity, includes an interest in the entity— held directly or indirectly through any chain of ownership; or held as a derivative financial instrument or other contractual arrangement with the entity, including any financial instrument or other contract that seeks to replicate any financial return with respect to the entity or an interest in the entity. The term military-civil fusion strategy means the strategy of the Chinese Communist Party aiming to mobilize non-military resources and expertise for military application, including the development of technology, improvements in logistics, and other uses by the People’s Liberation Army.
The term intellectual property means— any work protected by a copyright under title 17, United States Code; any property protected by a patent granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office under title 35, United States Code; any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, that is registered as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office under the Act entitled An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain international conventions, and for other purposes , approved July 5, 1946 (commonly known as the Lanham Act or the Trademark Act of 1946 ) ( 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq. ); or a trade secret (as defined in section 1839 of title 18, United States Code).
The term technology — has the meaning given that term in section 1742 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 ( 50 U.S.C. 4801 ); and includes— any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, assembled, restored, converted, or replicated to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence; and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic, computer, processor, network, machine, accelerator, circuit, storage, system or subsystem, server, or related good, tool, or service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, assembled, restored, converted, or replicated to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.
The terms export , in-country transfer , and reexport have the meanings given those terms in section 1742 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 ( 50 U.S.C. 4801 ). The term United States person has the meaning given the term in section 2741 of title 18, United States Code, as added by section 4.
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