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Congressional Research Service

Selected Artificial Intelligence Legislation in the 118 th Congress:

September 13, 2024

Overview A search of Congress.gov for legislation introduced in the 118 th Congress with ³DUWLILFLDO LQWHOOLJHQFH´ or the related terms in the title or text resulted in 349 bills. 2 Of those, CRS identified 30 bills meeting the aforementioned criteria, of which 5 are identical or nearly identical bills. Information in this memorandum may be of general interest to Congress.As such, all or part of this information may be provided in other CRS written products or used to respond to other requests. Selected AI Legislation in the 118 th Congress The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked MediaAct of 2024 (S. 4674) was introduced on July 11, 2024. The bill would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a public-private partnership to facilitate the development of standards for content provenance technologies and synthetic content detection. Taking into account such standards, the bill would require providers of tools for generating synthetic, or synthetically-modified, content to provide users with the ability to provide provenance information. The bill would further prohibit any person or covered platform from removing, altering, tampering with, or disabling content provenance information in furtherance of unfair or deceptive acts or practices and non-consensual use of covered content to train AI or generate synthetic content, with provisions detailing enforcement authorities for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and states attorneys general. 1 CRS searched Congress.gov for legislation in the118 th Congress that included the term ³DUWLILFLDO LQWHOOLJHQFH ´ and the related terms ³DXWRPDWHG decision PDNLQJ ´ ³DXWRPDWHG [or algorithmic]decision PDNLQJ ´ ³IDFLDO UHFRJQLWLRQ ´ and ³GHHSIDNH [or deep IDNH@´ LQ WKH WH[W RU WLWOH /HJLVODWLRQ WKDW LQFOXGHG RQO\ D SURYLVLRQ IRFXVHG RQ $, RU WKH UHODWHG WHUPV H J LI RQO\ FHU tain sections focused on AI within a broader bill that did not pertain to AI, (e.g., a subset of AI provisions within a larger authorization or appropriations bill) or that only briefly mentioned AI or the related terms (e.g., if one of the terms is included in a broader list of technologies or research topics RU RQO\ PHQWLRQHG LQ WKH ELOO¶V ILQGLQJV RU VHQVH RI &RQJUHVV DUH H[FOXGHG 2 Based on asearch of Congress.gov asof August28, 2024.

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