AI Transparency in Elections Act of 2024

• 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

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

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

• False or misleading information
• Pollution of information ecosystem

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 3-4 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors (4.1 Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale; 4.3 Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation) and misinformation (3.1 False or misleading information; 3.2 Pollution of information ecosystem). Coverage is concentrated in preventing AI-enabled electoral manipulation and deceptive political communications.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Information
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

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

• Professional & Technical Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector (broadcasting, telecommunications, digital media) and aspects of Professional and Technical Services (political consulting, advertising agencies). It also has implications for Public Administration through its regulation of electoral processes.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding federal statute with mandatory requirements, civil penalties for non-compliance, and designated enforcement authority through the Federal Election Commission.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: The document is titled 'AI Transparency in Elections Act of 2024' and is identified as being from the 'United States Congress' as the authority, indicating Congress proposed and enacted this legislation.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Deployer, AI_User
• Summary: The Act targets any 'person' who makes disbursements for covered communications containing AI-generated content in political advertising. This includes political campaigns, political committees, and any entities creating or distributing political advertisements using AI.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Federal Election Commission; National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Summary: The Federal Election Commission is explicitly designated as the enforcement authority with power to impose civil penalties and establish penalty schedules. NIST has a consultative role in regulation development.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Federal Election Commission; Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate; Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives
• Summary: The Federal Election Commission is required to monitor compliance and enforcement, submitting biannual reports to Congressional committees assessing compliance and making recommendations.

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 primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, as it regulates the distribution and use of AI-generated content in political communications and requires ongoing monitoring and reporting. It does not address earlier stages like planning, data collection, or model development.

Technical Scope

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

• Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and covers generative artificial intelligence and AI-generated content (images, audio, video). It does not mention AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.