Growing Artificial Intelligence Through Research Act
A BILL
To establish a coordinated Federal initiative to accelerate artificial intelligence research and development for the economic and national security of the United States, and for other purposes.
2. Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that—
there is a need for a National Artificial Intelligence Initiative, including a comprehensive artificial intelligence research and development strategy and coordination across agencies;
there are currently several committees working on related tasks with respect to artificial intelligence and many agency representatives serve on multiple such committees with similar goals with respect to artificial intelligence; and
the reporting structure of such committees could be simplified to address efficiently the goals of the Initiative.
3. Definitions
In this Act:
Artificial intelligence— The term artificial intelligence—
means intelligent machines that use algorithms, computer programs, and other techniques to behave in ways commonly thought to require intelligence; and
includes forms such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing.
Advisory Committee— The term Advisory Committee means the committee established or designated under section 104.
Emerging Research Institution— The term emerging research institution means an institution of higher education that—
receives less than $20,000,000 in Federal research funding annually; and
may grant a doctoral degree.
Industry— The term industry means entities in industries relevant to artificial intelligence.
Initiative— The term Initiative means the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative established under section 101.
Institutions of higher education— The term institutions of higher education has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
Interagency Committee— The term Interagency Committee means the committee established or designated under section 104(a).
K–12 education— The term K–12 education means elementary school and secondary education, as such terms are defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
Machine learning— The term machine learning means a subfield of artificial intelligence that is characterized by giving computers the autonomous ability to progressively optimize performance of a specific task based on data without being explicitly programmed.