SCAM Platform 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

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

• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

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

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• False or misleading information
• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage of approximately 2-3 subdomains, with primary focus on fraud and scams (4.3), AI system security and robustness (2.2, 7.3), and potentially misinformation (3.1). Coverage is concentrated in malicious actor prevention and AI system reliability domains.

Sector coverage

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

• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs the Public Administration sector by mandating the Federal Communications Commission to develop and deploy an AI tool. It does not directly regulate private sector activities but creates a public service tool that may indirectly affect Information and Professional Services sectors involved in scam prevention.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act from the United States Congress with mandatory requirements and specified enforcement authority through the Federal Communications Commission.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress; Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
• Summary: The document is enacted by Congress as indicated in the opening clause, making Congress the proposer of this legislation.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Federal Communications Commission; Commission
• Summary: The FCC is the primary target of this legislation, as it is required to develop and provide the AI-based scam identification tool.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Federal Communications Commission
• Summary: While not explicitly stated, the FCC would be responsible for implementing and enforcing its own compliance with this Act, as is standard for federal agency mandates. Congress would have oversight authority.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: Congress would maintain oversight and monitoring authority over the FCC's implementation of this Act through standard legislative oversight mechanisms, though this is not explicitly stated in the document.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Build and Use Model
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily covers the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages, as it mandates the FCC to provide a publicly accessible AI tool and implies ongoing operation. It also implicitly covers Build and Use Model and Verify and Validate stages through the requirement to create an AI-based evaluation system.

Technical Scope

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

• AI Models
• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions artificial intelligence and references the National AI Initiative Act definition. It does not specify whether the AI is generative, predictive, frontier, general purpose, or task-specific, though the scam detection function suggests task-specific predictive AI. No compute thresholds or model weight specifications are mentioned.