Sense of Congress; purposes

(a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence capabilities present both opportunities and significant risks to national security, public safety, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, and healthy labor and other markets, and that, as artificial intelligence advances toward human-level capabilities in virtually all domains, the United States must establish a secure testing and evaluation program to generate data-driven options for managing emerging risks. (b) Purposes The purposes of the program established under this Act are to provide Congress with the empirical data, lessons, and insights necessary for Federal oversight of artificial intelligence to ensure that regulatory decisions are made on the basis of empirical testing, and to enable Congress to safeguard American citizens.