[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1736 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1736
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct annual
assessments on terrorism threats to the United States posed by
terrorist organizations utilizing generative artificial intelligence
applications, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 27, 2025
Mr. Pfluger (for himself, Mr. Guest, and Mr. Evans of Colorado)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Homeland Security
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct annual
assessments on terrorism threats to the United States posed by
terrorist organizations utilizing generative artificial intelligence
applications, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Generative AI Terrorism Risk
Assessment Act''.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE USE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITY.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the heightened terrorism threat landscape and the
increasing utilization of generative artificial intelligence
applications by terrorist organizations represent a national
security threat, and the challenges posed by such threat are
not well understood; and
(2) the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation
with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, must
take steps to recognize, assess, and address such threat,
thereby reducing risks to the people of the United States.
SEC. 3. ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS ON TERRORISM THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES
POSED BY TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS UTILIZING GENERATIVE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS.
(a) Assessments.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for five
years, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with
the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees an assessment of terrorism
threats to the United States posed by terrorist organizations
utilizing generative artificial intelligence applications.
(2) Contents.--Each terrorism threat assessment under
paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) An analysis of incidents during the immediately
preceding calendar year in which terrorist
organizations have utilized or attempted to utilize
generative artificial intelligence applications to
carry out the following:
(i) Spread violent extremist messaging and
facilitate the ability to radicalize and
recruit individuals to violence.
(ii) Enhance their ability to develop or
deploy chemical, biological, radiological, or
nuclear weapons.
(B) Recommendations on appropriate measures to
counter terrorism threats to the United States posed by
such terrorist organizations.
(3) Coordination.--Each terrorism threat assessment under
paragraph (1)--
(A) shall be coordinated with the Office of the
General Counsel, the Privacy Office, and the Office of
for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Department
of Homeland Security prior to release outside the
Department to ensure each such assessment complies with
applicable law and protects individuals' privacy, civil
rights, and civil liberties, and
(B) may be informed by existing products, as
appropriate.
(4) Form.--Each terrorism threat assessment under paragraph
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex only for the protection of intelligence
sources and methods relating to the matters contained in such
assessment. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall post on a
publicly available website of the Department of Homeland
Security the unclassified portion of each such assessment.
(5) Briefing.--Not later than 30 days after the submission
of each terrorism threat assessment under paragraph (1), the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall brief the appropriate
congressional committees regarding each such assessment. The
head of any other relevant Federal department or agency shall
join the Secretary for any such briefing if any such committee,
in consultation with the Secretary, determines such is
appropriate.
(6) Appropriate congressional committees.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means the Committee on Homeland Security, the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Energy and
Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation of the Senate.
(b) Information Sharing.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
review information relating to terrorism threats to the United States
posed by terrorist organizations utilizing generative artificial
intelligence applications that is gathered by State and local fusion
centers and the National Network of Fusion Centers, and incorporate
such information, as appropriate, into the Department of Homeland
Security's own information relating to such. The Secretary shall ensure
the dissemination to State and local fusion centers and the National
Network of Fusion Centers of such information.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Generative artificial intelligence applications.--The
term ``generative artificial intelligence applications'' means
the class of artificial intelligence models that emulate the
structure and characteristics of input data in order to
generate derived synthetic content, including images, videos,
audio, text, and other digital content.
(2) Fusion center.--The term ``fusion center'' has the
meaning given such term in subsection (k) of section 210A of
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h).
(3) National network of fusion centers.--The term
``National Network of Fusion Centers'' means a decentralized
arrangement of fusion centers intended to enhance the ability
of individual State and local fusion centers to leverage the
capabilities and expertise of all such fusion centers for the
purpose of enhancing analysis and homeland security information
sharing nationally.
(4) Terrorist organization.--The term ``terrorist
organization'' means--
(A) any entity designated as a foreign terrorist
organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); or
(B) any entity engaged in terrorism, as such term
is defined in section 2(18) of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101(18)).
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