Advisory Group

(a) Establishment Not later than 360 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall establish a group to be known as the Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies (referred to in this section as the Advisory Group). (b) Duties (1) In general The Advisory Group shall provide consensus advice and guidance to the Commission on best practices for private enterprises or public entities using covered technology that may have different performance outcomes depending on the underlying language of the content being analyzed in order to ensure the nondiscriminatory application of such technology. (2) Covered technology For purposes of paragraph (1), the term covered technology means technology used to— (A) detect and process input language from sources, such as analog text and audio, into a machine-readable format, such as speech and optical character recognition; (B) process or generate language stored in a machine-readable format, such as natural language processing, including large language models; (C) detect and process images and videos into a machine-readable format, or process images or videos stored in a machine-readable format; and (D) make automated decisions related to content removal, ranking, or presentation to a user of an online platform. (3) Membership The Commission shall appoint the members of the Advisory Group. In making such appointments, the Commission shall provide that the membership of the Advisory Group— (A) includes different points of view and background experience; and (B) includes both Federal employees and non-Federal employee stakeholders, including representatives of communities most impacted by the systemic risks of harmful non-English language content and current or former content moderators and employees of covered platforms. (4) Report The Commission shall make available on its website the findings of the Advisory Group with recommendations and best practices as reported by the Advisory Group concerning the use of covered technology. (c) Non-Applicability of the Federal Advisory Committee Act Chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to the Advisory Group. (d) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to the Advisory Group such sums as are necessary to carry out the requirements of this section.