S.Amdt. 1911

SA 1911. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title XVI, insert
the following:

SEC. ___. POLICIES FOR CYBERSECURITY AND RESILIENCE FOR
CERTAIN PROGRAMS DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS USING
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MACHINE LEARNING.

(a) Policies Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall
issue policies for programs developing applications and
systems using artificial intelligence or machine learning and
resulting in autonomous control, decisionmaking, or other
safety-critical functions not under control or observation by
a human operator to ensure that autonomous systems and
decisionmaking algorithms are resilient to deception or other
cyber attacks.
(b) Risk Mitigation.--The policies issued under subsection
(a) shall cover risk mitigation that considers that cyber-
attacks against systems described in subsection (a) can occur
at the following levels:
(1) Adversarial inputs to recognition algorithms, such as
visual image manipulation to fool recognition.
(2) Adversarial inputs to planning or decisionmaking
algorithms.
(3) More conventional attacks against the software
implementations of the system, such as common software
weaknesses.
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