S.Amdt. 2054

SA 2054. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. Lujan)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502
proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new
Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research,
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical
supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

After section 2115, insert the following:

SEC. 2116. SAFETY AND ETHICS AI RESEARCH INSTITUTES.

Within the National Artificial Intelligence Research
Institutes authorized in section 5201 of William M. (Mac)
Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2021 (Public Law 116-283), the Director of the National
Science Foundation shall establish a specific theme that
addresses the areas of artificial intelligence safety and
artificial intelligence ethics in order to promote
development of trustworthy artificial intelligence and to
mitigate the creation and use of artificial intelligence
systems that behave in ways that cause harm.
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