Requires the Election Assistance Commission to issue voluntary guidelines addressing AI use and risks in election administration. Includes guidelines on AI benefits, cybersecurity risks, accurate information sharing, and combating election disinformation impacting public trust.
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This is a legislative act that mandates the creation of voluntary guidelines, making it a hybrid instrument that uses hard law mechanisms to establish soft law guidance. The guidelines themselves are explicitly voluntary and non-binding.
The document has good coverage of approximately 6-8 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors and disinformation (4.1), misinformation (3.1, 3.2), AI system security (2.2), and governance structures (6.5). Coverage is concentrated in security, misinformation, and governance domains as they relate to election administration.
This document primarily governs the Public Administration sector, specifically addressing AI use in election administration by state and local election offices. It does not regulate private sector AI development or deployment.
The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages but rather addresses the use and risks of AI technologies broadly in election administration. It implicitly covers deployment and operation/monitoring stages through its focus on how AI is used in practice and its ongoing impacts on election information and disinformation.
The document uses the general term 'artificial intelligence technologies' without defining it or specifying particular types of AI systems, models, or technical characteristics. No specific AI categories, compute thresholds, or model types are mentioned.
United States Congress
The document header identifies the United States Congress as the authority issuing this Act, making it the proposer of this governance instrument.
No enforcement mechanisms are specified in the document as the guidelines are explicitly voluntary. There is no designated enforcement body or authority.
Election Assistance Commission; National Institute of Standards and Technology
The Election Assistance Commission is tasked with creating the guidelines in consultation with NIST, suggesting these bodies will have oversight roles in developing and potentially tracking implementation of the voluntary guidelines.
State and local election offices
The voluntary guidelines are explicitly directed to State and local election offices that may use AI technologies in election administration activities.
8 subdomains (8 Minimal)