Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act

Proposed 2024-05-10 | Official source

Summary

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.

This summary is awaiting validation (peer review by a second AGORA editor).

Key facts

🏛️ This document was proposed and/or enacted by the United States Congress but is now defunct. For authoritative text and metadata, visit the official source.

🎯 This document primarily applies to the government, rather than the private sector.

📜 This document's name is Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act.

Themes AI risks, applications, governance strategies, and other themes addressed in AGORA documents.

Thematic tags for this document are awaiting validation (peer review by a second AGORA editor).

Risk factors (2)

Harms (1)

Detrimental content This tag applies to documents addressing detrimental content involving AI, such as deepfakes or AI-generated spam.

Governance strategies (1)

Government study or report This tag applies to documents that require, authorize, encourage, or allocate resources for AI-related studies, reports, or plans to be prepared by or for the government.

Full text

This is an unofficial copy. The document has been archived and reformatted in plaintext for AGORA. Footnotes, tables, and similar material may be omitted. For the official text, visit the original source.
Thematic tags for this document are awaiting validation (peer review by a second AGORA editor).

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act”.

SEC. 2. VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES FOR ADMINISTRATION OF ELECTIONS THAT ADDRESS THE USE AND RISKS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES. (a) Report And Voluntary Guidelines.—Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Election Assistance Commission shall, in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, submit to Congress, issue to State and local election offices, and make available to the public a report with voluntary guidelines for election offices that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies in the administration of elections. (b) Contents.—The report submitted and made available pursuant to subsection (a) shall include voluntary guidelines that address— (1) the risks and benefits associated with using artificial intelligence technologies to conduct election administration activities; (2) the cybersecurity risks of artificial intelligence technologies to election administration; (3) how information generated and distributed by artificial intelligence technologies can affect the sharing of accurate election information and how election offices should respond; and (4) how information generated and distributed by artificial intelligence technologies can affect the spreading of election disinformation that undermines public trust and confidence in elections.