Consumer Literacy and Empowerment to Advance Responsible Navigation of Artificial Intelligence Act

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-03

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Compromise of privacy
• False or misleading information
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Loss of human agency and autonomy
• Lack of capability or robustness
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage of risk domains, with primary focus on consumer education rather than specific AI risks. It has minimal coverage (score 2) of approximately 3-4 subdomains: overreliance and unsafe use (5.1), loss of agency and autonomy (5.2), fraud and manipulation (4.3), and lack of transparency (7.4). The document emphasizes consumer literacy as a preventive measure rather than directly addressing specific risk mitigation.

Sector coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Finance & Insurance
• Educational Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document does not govern specific economic sectors but rather establishes a cross-sectoral consumer education initiative. It references multiple sectors as contexts for AI use cases (personal finance, healthcare, communication, creative works, business management) but does not impose governance requirements on these sectors. The governance applies to the Secretary of Commerce's obligation to develop consumer literacy programs.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a Congressional Act with binding legal obligations on the Secretary of Commerce, using mandatory language ('shall') throughout and establishing specific timelines, reporting requirements, and appropriations authority.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The document is a Congressional Act proposed and enacted by the United States Congress, as indicated by the legislative format and structure.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Summary: The Act primarily targets the Secretary of Commerce with mandatory obligations to develop strategy and campaigns. It also references developers and deployers of AI products and services as having responsibilities, though they are not directly regulated by this Act. Consumers are the intended beneficiaries of the literacy campaign.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: Congress enforces compliance through reporting requirements and appropriations oversight. The GAO is tasked with issuing evaluation reports on federal AI literacy programs.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Secretary is required to conduct annual reviews of the national strategy and develop performance measures. The GAO monitors federal AI literacy programs. Private or nonprofit organizations are tasked with evaluating campaign effectiveness.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages but rather addresses consumer interaction with AI products and services across all stages. It emphasizes consumer literacy about AI capabilities and limitations, which is relevant to how consumers engage with deployed and operational AI systems. The primary focus is on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages from a consumer perspective.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• Generative AI
• Predictive AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions AI products and services broadly but does not specifically reference AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. It does reference various AI tasks such as classification, prediction, content generation, and autonomous decision making.