ASSESS AI Act (S.1356) - 118th Congress

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A U.S. Senate bill from 2023 focused on federal AI accountability; relevant for understanding legislative approaches to AI governance, civil rights protections, and regulatory gap analysis in government AI deployment.

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Summary

The ASSESS AI Act is a 2023 Senate bill directing the President to establish an 18-month task force to evaluate privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties implications of federal AI use. The task force would identify regulatory and policy gaps and recommend legislative reforms to ensure AI systems comply with constitutional protections. It represents a congressional effort to proactively address governance gaps before AI-related harms proliferate in government applications.

Key Points

•Establishes a presidential task force to assess privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties risks from federal AI systems over an 18-month period.
•Task force would identify existing policy and regulatory gaps in how federal AI applications collect, process, and use data.
•Recommends legislative and regulatory reforms to ensure AI use aligns with constitutional protections: free expression, equal protection, privacy, and due process.
•Task force may engage private sector representatives and can recommend similar bodies for other emerging technologies.
•Introduced in April 2023 as part of growing congressional attention to responsible AI governance in federal agencies.

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# S.1356 - ASSESS AI Act  118th Congress (2023-2024)

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| Sponsor: | [Sen. Bennet, Michael F. \[D-CO\]](https://www.congress.gov/member/michael-bennet/B001267) (Introduced 04/27/2023) |
| Committees: | Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
| Latest Action: | Senate - 04/27/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.  ( [All Actions](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1356/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs)) |
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### Shown Here:  Introduced in Senate (04/27/2023)

**Assuring Safe, Secure, Ethical, and Stable Systems for AI Act or the ASSESS AI Act**

This bill directs the President to appoint a task force to assess the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties implications of artificial intelligence (AI).

The task force shall

- assess existing policy, regulatory, and legal gaps for AI applications and associated data; and
- make recommendations to Congress and the President for legislative and regulatory reforms to ensure that uses of AI and associated data in federal government operations comport with freedom of expression, equal protection, privacy, civil liberties, civil rights, and due process.

The task force may (1) engage with representatives from a private sector organization, subject to specified requirements; and (2) recommend to Congress the creation of a similar task force focused on an

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