Requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines addressing AI use and risks in elections, emphasizing AI's role in election disinformation. Directs a study on AI's impact in the 2024 elections, with findings used to update guidelines.
Analysis summaries, actor details, and coverage mappings were LLM-classified and may contain errors.
This is a legislative act that mandates the creation of voluntary guidelines for election administration, with no binding enforcement mechanisms or penalties for non-compliance with the guidelines themselves.
The document has good coverage of approximately 4-5 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors and disinformation (4.1), misinformation (3.1, 3.2), AI system security (2.2), and governance failure (6.5). Coverage is concentrated in information integrity, election security, and governance domains.
This document primarily governs the Public Administration sector, specifically election administration offices at state and local levels. It does not regulate AI developers or deployers in other sectors, but rather provides voluntary guidelines for government election offices on managing AI risks and uses in election administration.
The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages but rather addresses the use and impacts of AI technologies in election administration broadly. It emphasizes operational monitoring and deployment contexts through studying AI use in elections and developing guidelines for election offices.
The document uses the general term 'artificial intelligence technologies' throughout without defining it or specifying particular types of AI systems, models, or technical characteristics. No compute thresholds, model types, or technical specifications are mentioned.
United States Congress; Senator Amy Klobuchar; Senator Susan Collins; Committee on Rules and Administration
The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senators Klobuchar and Collins, read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration, then reported by Senator Klobuchar with an amendment.
Election Assistance Commission
The Election Assistance Commission is mandated to develop guidelines, conduct studies, and review/update guidelines. However, since the guidelines are voluntary, there is no traditional enforcement mechanism for compliance by election offices.
Election Assistance Commission; National Institute of Standards and Technology
The EAC is required to study the use and impacts of AI in the 2024 elections and report findings to Congress, State and local election offices, and the public. NIST provides consultation support.
State and local election offices; Election Assistance Commission
The voluntary guidelines are specifically directed to State and local election offices to address AI use and risks in election administration. The EAC is also a target as it must conduct studies and develop guidelines.
6 subdomains (1 Good, 5 Minimal)