Fair Grocery Pricing Act

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

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• Competitive dynamics

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

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Multi-agent risks

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains, with primary focus on competitive dynamics (6.4) through regulation of algorithmic price coordination. There is implicit coverage of AI system security (2.2) through prohibition of certain algorithmic systems, and minimal coverage of malicious actors (4.3) through fraud prevention. The document addresses specific harms from algorithmic collusion rather than broader AI safety or governance risks.

Sector coverage

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

• Agriculture, Mining, Construction & Manufacturing
• Professional & Technical Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Agriculture, Mining, Construction and Manufacturing sector, specifically food producers engaged in manufacturing, processing, or production of food products. It also governs the Professional and Technical Services sector through regulation of coordinators who provide software and data analytics services.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act proposed by the United States Congress with explicit enforcement mechanisms, mandatory prohibitions, and civil and criminal penalties for violations.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The document is explicitly proposed by the United States Congress as indicated in the opening text 'Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled'.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Summary: The Act explicitly targets food producers who use algorithmic systems and coordinators who provide algorithmic pricing services. Food producers are defined as entities engaged in manufacturing, processing, or production of food products. Coordinators are defined as persons operating software or data analytics services that perform coordinating functions including algorithmic analysis.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Act assigns enforcement authority to three government entities: the Federal Trade Commission, the Attorney General, and state attorneys general, each with specific enforcement powers and procedures.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, Affected_Stakeholder
• Summary: The Act provides monitoring and oversight through government enforcement agencies and also empowers private individuals who are aggrieved by violations to bring civil actions, creating a distributed monitoring system.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily governs the deployment and operation of algorithmic systems used for price coordination in the food production sector. It focuses on the use and deployment of existing algorithmic systems rather than their development, with emphasis on operational monitoring through enforcement mechanisms.

Technical Scope

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

• Predictive AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions algorithmic systems and software used for data analytics and price coordination. It does not use specific AI terminology like 'AI models' or 'AI systems' but clearly covers computational systems that use algorithms and data processing. There is no mention of frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, or compute thresholds.