HR 6996
Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act
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Bill overview
This bill, the Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act, aims to strengthen the United States’ position in the global artificial intelligence race. It seeks to boost the export of U.S. AI systems, hardware, and standards while countering foreign influence and ensuring that AI deployment globally relies on U.S.-developed technology. The legislation establishes programs to facilitate AI export, encourage international adoption of the U.S. ‘full AI stack,’ and study the impact of global AI deployment on U.S. and allied security and economic leadership.
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- Establishes a program to identify and support industry consortia for exporting the U.S. full AI stack.
- Directs the State Department to work to eliminate foreign barriers to U.S. AI exports.
- Requires a study on the benefits and impact of global AI deployment.
- Mandates the Commerce Secretary to develop security measures for U.S. AI semiconductor products.
- Creates an AI full stack confidence initiative to reassure major purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack.
- Establishes an AI export success tracker to monitor the global deployment of U.S. AI technology.
- Defines key terms related to artificial intelligence and export promotion.
- Calls for biannual updates on the success of AI exports.
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- U.S. technology companies
- Foreign governments
- International organizations
- Allies and partners of the United States
- The artificial intelligence industry
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119th CONGRESS — 2d Session
H. R. 6996
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To facilitate the export of United States artificial intelligence systems, computing hardware, and standards globally.
This Act may be cited as the Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act
.
Congress finds the following:
The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence, the winner of which will reap broad economic and military benefits.
Winning the AI race will usher in a new golden age of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security for the American people.
Establishing United States AI as the gold standard for AI worldwide and ensuring our allies build AI on United States technology will help the United States win the AI race.
Advanced AI compute is essential to the AI era, enabling both economic dynamism and novel military capabilities. Denying our foreign adversaries access to this resource, then, is a matter of both geostrategic competition and national security.
It is the policy of the United States to—
maintain United States dominance in the global deployment of artificial intelligence;
ensure global deployment of artificial intelligence is based on United States-developed AI models, run by United States cloud operators, run by data centers owned or operated by United States firms, and functioning on United States-designed artificial intelligence semiconductors;
reduce the barriers faced by United States firms to export the U.S. full AI stack;
prevent illicit foreign adversary access to the U.S. full AI stack deployed abroad;
ensure the global deployment of AI strengthens the qualitative military superiority of the United States and its allies over foreign adversaries; and
Not later than 180 days after the date on which the program required by subsection (a) is established, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the status and results of the program.
carrying out activities such as holding regular industry listening sessions;
establishing a hotline for industry to communications barriers to exporting the U.S. full AI stack;
elevating appropriate diplomatic channels; and
carrying out other relevant actions.
Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall establish a diplomatic strategy outlining how the United States will address the following:
Easing United States AI companies’ access to foreign markets.
Communicating to foreign countries the importance and benefits of using the U.S. full AI stack to deploy artificial intelligence.
Leveraging the United States position in international diplomatic and standard-setting bodies to advocate for international AI governance approaches that promote innovation, reflect American values, and counter authoritarian influence.
The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, shall conduct a study on the benefits and impact of the global deployment of artificial intelligence.
The study required by subsection (a) shall address the following:
The economic, diplomatic, and technological impact for the United States and its allies from the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack.
The impact on U.S. economic, diplomatic, and technological leadership from the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack.
The competitive position of the U.S. full AI stack globally, compared to similar technology developed by foreign countries.
How the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack enhances or affects United States and allied security, including the qualitative military superiority of the United States and its allies over foreign adversaries.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State submit to appropriate congressional committees a report on the results of the study required by subsection (a).
The report required by this subsection shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the development and implementation of the security measures described in subsection (a).
The report required by this subsection shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.
The report required by subsection (b) shall address the following:
Plans of the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Energy, to increase the speed and security of the deployment of the U.S. full AI stack, such as creating standardized security requirements for the U.S. full AI stack deployed in third countries.
Agreements reached with countries designed to promote adoption of the U.S. full stack, including efforts to prevent illicit or unauthorized foreign adversary access to the U.S. full AI stack.
The security measures that foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack must undertake to prevent transfer of the U.S. full AI stack to foreign adversaries, including by remote access.
The presence of foreign adversary hardware and software within the artificial intelligence supply chains of foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack, and supply-chain security measures that foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack take to eliminate that presence.
Any other relevant information regarding the security of the U.S. full AI stack.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the public, including the industry consortia identified in section 4, shall develop generally applicable practices, product offerings, or related standards to help demonstrate confidence and reassurance to major national purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack of the privacy, confidentiality, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. full AI stack for achieving the economic and security goals of major foreign purchasers.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and biannually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall complete an estimate of the success of the export of the U.S. full AI stack (in this section referred to as the AI export success tracker
).
The AI export success tracker shall contain the following elements:
An estimate of each country’s installed artificial intelligence, measured by total national computing capacity and total national memory bandwidth.
An estimate of what proportion of globally installed artificial intelligence integrated circuits are designed by United States firms.
An estimate of what proportion of globally installed artificial intelligence is installed in data centers owned or operated by United States firms, with appropriate descriptive breakdowns for each region or country.
An estimate of the proportion of global artificial intelligence model usage, measured by tokens processed, that occurs for models owned or operated by United States firms, with appropriate descriptive breakdowns for each region or country.
An estimate of the proportion of global cloud computing services revenue and data-processing capacity is attributable to cloud operators owned or operated by United States firms.
The Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and make available to the public a report that contains the findings of each estimate described under subsection (b).
The report required by this subsection shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.
In this Act—
the term appropriate congressional committees means—
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate;
the term artificial intelligence integrated circuits means any semiconductor device or integrated circuit architecture that is marketed to perform artificial intelligence model training, inference, or acceleration, including but not limited to graphics processing units;
the term foreign adversaries has the meaning given the term covered nation in section 4872(f) of title 10, United States Code;
the term national computing capacity means the aggregate maximum number of floating-point operations per second (FLOP/s) or equivalent operations available within a country from computing devices, processors, or systems configured for large-scale artificial intelligence training or inference. Computing capacity shall be calculated as the maximum number of floating-point operations per second (FLOP/s), normalized at a precision level determined by the Secretary of Commerce;
the term national memory bandwidth means the aggregate maximum rate, expressed in bytes per second, at which data can be transferred between processing elements and directly attached memory resources in all computing devices, processors, or systems that are configured for large-scale artificial intelligence training or inference within a country. National memory bandwidth shall be measured as the sum of the sustained aggregate data transfer rates of such systems under standard benchmark conditions;
the term U.S. artificial intelligence semiconductor products means any semiconductor device or integrated circuit architecture for which design activities were conducted in the United States and that is marketed to perform artificial intelligence model training, inference, or acceleration, including but not limited to graphics processing units;
the term token means a basic unit of text, code, or other data processed by an artificial intelligence model, typically corresponding to a word, part of a word, or symbol, used for the purpose of measuring the volume of model input or output.