National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, Section 7510 ("Requirement to ensure intelligence community directives appropriately account for artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in intelligence products")

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: NDAA provisions;U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2023-12-22

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• Governance failure
• 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 limited implicit references to governance failure (6.5) and AI system transparency (7.4). The document primarily focuses on procedural requirements for intelligence community guidance rather than substantive risk mitigation measures.

Sector coverage

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

• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document exclusively governs the National Security sector, specifically addressing AI and machine learning use within the U.S. intelligence community. It does not regulate AI use in any other economic sectors.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding statutory provision enacted by the U.S. Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, creating mandatory obligations on the Director of National Intelligence with specific deadlines and reporting requirements to Congress.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: The document is Section 7510 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which is enacted by the United States Congress as indicated in the authority field.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_User
• Entities: Director of National Intelligence; intelligence community analysts; intelligence community
• Summary: The document targets the Director of National Intelligence who must provide briefings, and intelligence community analysts who are the subject of the guidance being assessed. The intelligence community broadly is the entity whose directives and practices are being evaluated.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional intelligence committees; Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
• Summary: The enforcement mechanism is congressional oversight through the specified committees that receive the mandatory briefing and can exercise oversight authority over the intelligence community.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional intelligence committees; Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; Director of National Intelligence
• Summary: The same congressional committees that enforce also monitor through receiving briefings and assessments. The Director of National Intelligence also has a monitoring role in assessing whether existing directives provide sufficient guidance.

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
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document focuses primarily on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, as it addresses the use of AI/ML tools in intelligence products and the need for guidance on transparency and sourcing. It implicitly touches on Build and Use Model through references to proper use of AI tools.

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 both 'artificial intelligence' and 'machine learning tools' but does not define these terms or distinguish between different types of AI systems. There is no mention of frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, compute thresholds, or open-weight models.