S.Amdt. 618

SA 618. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. Ernst, and Mr.
Schatz) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the
bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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 end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

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SEC. ___. BRIEFING ON EXPLAINABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(a) Briefing Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall brief the congressional defense committees on the
development and applications of explainable artificial
intelligence.
(b) Elements.--The briefing required under subsection (a)
shall address the following:
(1) The extent to which the Department of Defense currently
uses and prioritizes explainable artificial intelligence.
(2) The limitations of explainable artificial intelligence
and the plans of the Department to address those limitations.
(3) The future plans of the Department to require
explainable artificial intelligence, particularly in
technologies that have warfighting applications.
(4) Any potential roadblocks to the effective deployment of
explainable artificial intelligence across the Department.
(5) Identification and description of programs and
activities, including funding and schedule, to develop or
procure explainable artificial intelligence to meet defense
requirements and technology development goals.
(6) Such other matters as the Secretary considers
appropriate.
(c) Form of Briefing.--The briefing required under
subsection (a) shall be provided in unclassified form, but
may include a classified supplement.
(d) Definition of Explainable Artificial Intelligence.--In
this section, the term `` explainable artificial
intelligence'' means artificial intelligence that has the
ability to demonstrate the rationale behind its decisions in
order for its human user to comprehend and characterize the
strengths and weaknesses of its decisionmaking process, as
well as understand how it will behave in the future in the
contexts in which it is used.
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