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Code · U.S. Code · Title 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS · CHAPTER 1— GENERAL · SUBCHAPTER I— DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET · § 104

§ 104. GUIDANCE FOR AGENCY USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Guidance .— Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act [ Dec. 27, 2020 ], the Director, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in consultation with the Administrator and any other relevant agencies and key stakeholders as determined by the Director, shall issue a memorandum to the head of each agency that shall— inform the development of policies regarding Federal acquisition and use by agencies regarding technologies that are empowered or enabled by artificial intelligence, including an identification of the responsibilities of agency officials managing the use of such technology; recommend approaches to remove barriers for use by agencies of artificial intelligence technologies in order to promote the innovative application of those technologies while protecting civil liberties, civil rights, and economic and national security; identify best practices for identifying, assessing, and mitigating any discriminatory impact or bias on the basis of any classification protected under Federal nondiscrimination laws, or any unintended consequence of the use of artificial intelligence, including policies to identify data used to train artificial intelligence algorithms as well as the data analyzed by artificial intelligence used by the agencies; and provide a template of the required contents of the agency plans described in subsection (c).
Public Comment .— To help ensure public trust in the applications of artificial intelligence technologies, the Director shall issue a draft version of the memorandum required under subsection
(a)for public comment not later than 180 days after [the] date of enactment of this Act. Plans .— Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Director issues the memorandum required under subsection
(a)or an update to the memorandum required under subsection (d), the head of each agency shall submit to the Director and post on a publicly available page on the website of the agency— a plan to achieve consistency with the memorandum; or a written determination that the agency does not use and does not anticipate using artificial intelligence. Updates .— Not later than 2 years after the date on which the Director issues the memorandum required under subsection (a), and every 2 years thereafter for 10 years, the Director shall issue updates to the memorandum.
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