Requires all designated element lead in the intelligence community to submit a report detailing their efforts in developing, acquiring, adopting, and maintaining artificial intelligence for enhancing intelligence collection, analysis, and internal workflows.
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This is a binding federal statute enacted by the United States Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, with mandatory reporting requirements and enforcement through congressional oversight mechanisms.
This document has minimal coverage of risk domains, primarily addressing governance structures and competitive dynamics. It focuses on reporting requirements and adoption processes rather than specific AI risks or harms. The document mentions governance coordination (6.4, 6.5) and implicitly touches on competitive dynamics with foreign adversaries, but does not substantively address most risk categories in the MIT taxonomy.
This document exclusively governs the National Security sector, specifically the intelligence community elements. It does not apply to private sector organizations or other government sectors beyond national security and intelligence operations.
The document covers multiple AI lifecycle stages with primary focus on deployment and operational monitoring. It addresses planning and design through reporting on adoption strategies, build and use through development and acquisition requirements, deployment through adoption processes, and operate and monitor through ongoing progress tracking and audits.
The document explicitly mentions 'artificial intelligence' throughout but does not define it or distinguish between AI models, AI systems, or specific types of AI. It does not reference frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on AI capabilities broadly for intelligence collection and analysis.
United States Congress
The document is a section of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, enacted by the United States Congress, which has legislative authority to create binding requirements for the intelligence community.
Congressional intelligence committees; Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; Inspectors General
Congressional committees receive mandatory reports and have oversight authority, while Inspectors General are explicitly tasked with conducting audits to evaluate compliance with the requirements.
Inspectors General; Inspector General of the Intelligence Community; Congressional intelligence committees; Director of National Intelligence
Inspectors General are explicitly required to conduct audits evaluating AI adoption efforts and compliance. The Director of National Intelligence must submit annual reports tracking progress, and congressional committees receive these reports for oversight purposes.
Intelligence community elements; Director of National Intelligence; Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer
The document applies to all elements of the intelligence community, requiring them to report on their AI development, acquisition, adoption, and maintenance efforts. These entities are both governance actors (government agencies) and AI developers/deployers in their operational capacity.
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