Promoting Precision Agriculture 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: 2025-03-28

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• Governance failure

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains, with limited focus on cybersecurity challenges (2.2) and governance structures (6.5). The document primarily addresses agricultural technology standards development rather than AI-specific risks. Coverage is concentrated in security vulnerabilities and governance framework areas, with brief mentions totaling approximately 2-3 subdomains.

Sector coverage

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

• Agriculture, Mining, Construction & Manufacturing

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

• Information
• Professional & Technical Services
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Agriculture sector through development of interconnectivity standards for precision agriculture equipment and practices. It also has secondary coverage of Information sector (data management, IoT, cloud computing) and Professional and Technical Services (standards development organizations).

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act from the United States Congress with mandatory obligations on the Secretary of Agriculture and the Comptroller General, using mandatory language throughout.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress; Senate; House of Representatives
• Summary: The document is a Congressional bill enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, making Congress the proposer of this governance instrument.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer, AI_Infrastructure_Provider
• Entities: precision agriculture equipment providers; agriculture producers; voluntary consensus standards development organizations; relevant industry organizations; trusted private sector stakeholders
• Summary: The document targets precision agriculture equipment providers, developers, and deployers who will adopt the voluntary standards. It also targets industry organizations and standards development bodies who will participate in creating these standards.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Secretary of Agriculture; Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; Federal Communications Commission
• Summary: The Secretary of Agriculture is the primary enforcer responsible for developing standards in consultation with NIST Director and FCC. However, enforcement is limited to ensuring government officials fulfill their obligations rather than penalizing industry non-compliance.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Comptroller General of the United States; Government Accountability Office (GAO); Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives; Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives; Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate
• Summary: The Comptroller General (GAO) is designated to conduct biennial assessments of the standards' effectiveness and report findings to multiple Congressional committees who provide oversight.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Build and Use Model
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document addresses multiple AI lifecycle stages with primary focus on Plan and Design (developing standards and guidelines) and Operate and Monitor (biennial assessments). It also covers Deploy through consideration of adoption challenges and Build and Use Model through consideration of AI's impact on precision agriculture.

Technical Scope

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

No technical scope terms identified.

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions artificial intelligence and its impact on precision agriculture. It does not specifically mention AI models, AI systems, or any specialized AI categories (frontier, general purpose, task-specific, foundation models, generative, predictive). No compute thresholds or open-weight models are discussed. The focus is on AI's impact on agricultural technology rather than AI technical specifications.