S.Amdt. 2612

SA 2612. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 B of title XXXI, add the following:

SEC. 3123. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY.

(a) Evaluations.--
(1) In general.--The Administrator for Nuclear Security
shall develop tools and testbeds to evaluate the capabilities
of artificial intelligence systems to assist in the
development of chemical, biological, nuclear, or radiological
weapons.
(2) Public artificial intelligence systems.--The
Administrator shall evaluate publicly available artificial
intelligence systems for such capabilities on an ongoing
basis.
(b) Requirements on Commercial Artificial Intelligence
Providers.--
(1) In general.--Any commercial cloud computing service
that provides unclassified access to artificial intelligence
systems on its platform, and which in general offers software
services in a classified computing environment to the
Department of Energy or Department of Defense, shall, at the
request of the Administrator, offer a particular artificial
intelligence system in a classified computing environment at
no cost to the National Nuclear Security Administration, upon
a determination by the Administrator that the specified
artificial intelligence system is relevant for performing the
tasks specified in subsection (a).
(2) Assistance.--Developers of any such artificial
intelligence systems shall provide any necessary design and
engineering assistance necessary to support the usage of
those systems in the classified computing environment.
(c) Briefing.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear Security
shall provide to the congressional defense committees, the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, and
the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives, a classified briefing that includes--
(1) a description of the work performed by the National
Nuclear Security Administration in response to Executive
Order 14110 (88 Fed. Reg. 75191; relating to safe, secure,
and trustworthy development and use of artificial
intelligence) and the evaluations conducted pursuant to
subsection (a) to understand the national security risks
posed by artificial intelligence;
(2) a description of the extent to which commercial and
open source artificial intelligence systems can generate
sensitive or classified information about nuclear weapons,
and whether any such systems are developed using classified
information;
(3) a description of the status of authorities for running
commercial and open source artificial intelligence systems on
classified computational infrastructure;
(4) a summary of potential risk mitigation and response
options in the event that Restricted Data (as that term is
defined in section 11 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42
U.S.C. 2014)) is discovered on, or generated by, commercial
or open source artificial intelligence systems;
(5) recommendations regarding the infrastructure and
personnel needed to continue to evaluate the national
security risks of artificial intelligence systems; and
(6) recommendations on the legal authorities needed by the
National Nuclear Security Administration to address national
security risks of artificial intelligence systems.
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