S.Amdt. 4733

SA 4733. Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms.
Rosen, Ms. Collins, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Peters, and Mr. King)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867
submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R.
4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SECTION 1283. UNITED STATES-ISRAEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
CENTER.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``United
States-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act''.
(b) Establishment of Center.--The Secretary of State, in
consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of
the National Science Foundation, and the heads of other
relevant Federal agencies, may establish the United States-
Israel Artificial Intelligence Center (referred to in this
section as the ``Center'') in the United States.
(c) Purpose.--The purpose of the Center shall be to
leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of
institutions of higher education and private sector entities
in the United States and Israel to develop more robust
research and development cooperation in the areas of--
(1) machine learning;
(2) image classification;
(3) object detection;
(4) speech recognition;
(5) natural language processing;
(6) data labeling;
(7) computer vision; and
(8) model explainability and interpretability.
(d) Artificial Intelligence Principles.--In carrying out
the purposes set forth in subsection (c), the Center shall
adhere to the principles for the use of artificial
intelligence in the Federal Government set forth in section 3
of Executive Order 13960 (85 Fed. Reg. 78939).
(e) International Partnerships.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of State and the heads of
other relevant Federal agencies, subject to the availability
of appropriations, may enter into cooperative agreements
supporting and enhancing dialogue and planning involving
international partnerships between the Department of State or
such agencies and the Government of Israel and its
ministries, offices, and institutions.
(2) Federal share.--Not more than 50 percent of the costs
of implementing the agreements entered into pursuant to
paragraph (1) may be paid by the United States Government.
(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated for the Center $10,000,000 for each of the
fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
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