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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 3952 (Introduced in Senate) — To establish artificial intelligence standards, metrics, and evaluation tools, to support artificial intelligence res... · Sec. 102

Sec. 102. Interagency coordination and program to facilitate artificial intelligence testbeds

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In this section: The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives. The term Director means the Director of the National Science Foundation. The term Institute means the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy. The term Under Secretary means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology.
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary and the Secretary, in coordination with the Director, shall jointly establish a testbed program to encourage collaboration and support partnerships between the National Laboratories, Federal laboratories, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource pilot program established by the Director, or any successor program, and public and private sector entities, including companies of all sizes, to conduct tests, evaluations, and security or vulnerability risk assessments, and to support research and development, of artificial intelligence systems, including measurement methodologies developed by the Institute, in order to develop standards and encourage development of a third-party ecosystem.
In carrying out the program required by subsection (b), the Under Secretary and the Secretary— may use the advanced computing resources, testbeds, and expertise of the National Laboratories, Federal laboratories, the Institute, the National Science Foundation, and private sector entities to run tests and evaluations on the capabilities and limitations of artificial intelligence systems; shall use existing solutions to the maximum extent practicable; shall develop automated and reproducible tests and evaluations for artificial intelligence systems to the extent that is practicable; shall assess the computational resources necessary to run tests and evaluations of artificial intelligence systems; shall research methods to effectively minimize the computational resources needed to run tests, evaluations, and security assessments of artificial intelligence systems; shall where practicable, develop tests and evaluations for artificial intelligence systems that are designed for high-, medium-, and low-computational intensity; shall prioritize assessments by identifying security vulnerabilities of artificial intelligence systems, including the establishment of and utilization of existing classified testbeds, at the National Laboratories if necessary, including with respect to— autonomous offensive cyber capabilities; cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the artificial intelligence software ecosystem and beyond; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, critical infrastructure, and energy-security threats or hazards; and such other capabilities as the Under Secretary or the Secretary determines necessary; and shall organize a hackathon to test artificial intelligence systems security risks and vulnerabilities.
In carrying out the activities required by subsection (c), the Under Secretary and the Secretary shall take under consideration the applicability of any tests, evaluations, and risk assessments to artificial intelligence systems trained using primarily biological sequence data that could be used to enhance an artificial intelligence system’s ability to contribute to the creation of a pandemic or biological weapon, including those systems used for gene synthesis. The Under Secretary and the Secretary shall jointly develop metrics to assess— the effectiveness of the program in encouraging collaboration and supporting partnerships as described in subsection (b); and the impact of the program on public and private sector integration and use of artificial intelligence systems.
In carrying out the program required by subsection (b), the Under Secretary, the Secretary, and the Director may use a program that was in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act. Not later than 3 years after the start of the program required by subsection (b), the Under Secretary and the Secretary shall jointly— evaluate the success of the program in encouraging collaboration and supporting partnerships as described in subsection (b), using the metrics developed pursuant to subsection (e); evaluate the success of the program in encouraging public and private sector integration and use of artificial intelligence systems by using the metrics developed pursuant to subsection (e); and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the evaluation supported pursuant to paragraph
(1)and the findings of the Under Secretary, the Secretary, and the Director with respect to the testbed program. In carrying out subsection (b), the Under Secretary and the Secretary shall consult, as the Under Secretary and the Secretary consider appropriate, with the following: Industry, including private artificial intelligence laboratories, companies of all sizes, and representatives from the United States financial sector. Academia and institutions of higher education. Civil society. In carrying out the program under subsection (b), the Under Secretary and the Secretary shall, jointly carry out a test program to provide vendors of foundation models, as well as vendors of artificial intelligence virtual agents and robots that incorporate foundation models, the opportunity to voluntarily test foundation models across a range of modalities, such as models that ingest and output text, images, audio, video, software code, and mixed modalities. Access to a contributing private sector person’s voluntarily provided confidential content, as deemed confidential by the contributing private sector person, shall be limited to the contributing private sector person and the Institute. The Under Secretary and the Secretary may make aggregated, deidentified information available to contributing companies, the public, and other agencies, as the Under Secretary considers appropriate, in support of the purposes of this section. Any confidential content, as deemed confidential by the contributing private sector person, shall be exempt from public disclosure under section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a person to disclose any information, including information— relating to a trade secret or other protected intellectual property right; that is confidential business information; or that is privileged. The programs required by subsections
(b)and
(i)and the requirements of this section shall terminate on the date that is 7 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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