S.Amdt. 3073

SA 3073. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Rounds, and Mr. Schumer)
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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. __. NET ASSESSMENT OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

(a) Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall, acting through
the Office of Net Assessment, conduct a study to analyze the
impact of future developments in artificial general
intelligence on the military readiness and economic
competitiveness of the United States.
(b) Scenarios.--
(1) In general.--In conducting the study required by
subsection (a), the Secretary shall analyze multiple
scenarios in which a specified artificial intelligence
capability is assumed to exist and the goal is to understand
what the implications would be on the United States military
and the broader United States economy.
(2) Levels of capability.--Each scenario analyzed under
paragraph (1) shall assume the existence of a certain level
of capability to perform intellectual or physical tasks using
software or hardware, but without human involvement, and may
assume a specific cost of this artificial intelligence
capability, such as the ability to perform all job tasks that
a typical human would perform at a specified price.
(3) Dynamic capabilities.--Scenarios analyzed under this
subsection may allow the capabilities of artificial
intelligence systems to increase over time instead of
remaining fixed.
(c) Properties.--The study conducted under subsection (a)
shall have the following properties:
(1) A taxonomy of levels of artificial general
intelligence. To the degree possible, such taxonomy shall be
developed in conjunction with relevant experts in the Federal
Government or outside of government and shall be as
consistent as possible with any similar taxonomy developed by
such experts.
(2) At least one scenario under subsection (b) shall assume
the existence of an artificial general intelligence system
that is more intelligent than any human.
(d) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on the findings of
the Secretary with respect to the study conducted under
subsection (a).
(2) Form.--The report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1)
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(e) Briefing.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the
submittal of the report under subsection (d), the Secretary
shall provide the congressional defense committees a briefing
on the main findings of the Secretary with respect to the
study conducted under subsection (a).
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