Artificial Intelligence Public Awareness and Education Campaign 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: 2025-05-08

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• False or misleading information
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

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

• Compromise of privacy
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Overreliance and unsafe use

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal to good coverage of approximately 4 subdomains, with primary focus on fraud and scams (4.3), false information detection (3.1), privacy protection best practices (2.1), and overreliance risks (5.1). Coverage is concentrated in consumer protection and AI literacy domains, addressing public awareness of these risks rather than technical mitigation measures.

Sector coverage

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

• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

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

• Information
• Finance & Insurance
• Professional & Technical Services
• Educational Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Arts, Entertainment & Recreation

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs Public Administration excluding National Security by mandating the Secretary of Commerce and related federal agencies to conduct a public awareness campaign. While the campaign will educate the public about AI use across multiple sectors (finance, healthcare, education, professional services), the document does not regulate AI deployment in those sectors—it only requires government agencies to provide education about them.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a Congressional bill that, once enacted, would create binding legal obligations on the Secretary of Commerce to establish and maintain a public awareness campaign with specific requirements, reporting obligations, and defined timelines.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress; Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
• Summary: This is a Congressional bill as evidenced by the opening enactment clause and the legislative format. The document was proposed by Congress to create statutory obligations.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, Affected_Stakeholder
• Entities: Secretary of Commerce; Department of Commerce; National Institute of Standards and Technology; National Telecommunications and Information Administration; general public; consumers; individuals in the United States; senior citizens; small business owners
• Summary: The primary regulatory target is the Secretary of Commerce who must implement the campaign. The campaign itself targets the general public as beneficiaries and recipients of AI literacy education, making them affected stakeholders rather than regulated entities.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives
• Summary: Congressional committees serve as the enforcement mechanism through oversight and receipt of mandatory annual reports. The Secretary of Commerce is required to report to these committees on campaign performance and effectiveness.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Secretary of Commerce; Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives
• Summary: The Secretary of Commerce is responsible for developing key performance indicators, measuring campaign effectiveness, and reporting annually. Congressional committees monitor implementation through receipt of these reports.

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

This document does not directly govern the AI development lifecycle. Instead, it establishes a public education campaign about AI. The campaign materials will educate the public about AI capabilities, applications, and detection methods, which tangentially relates to understanding deployed AI systems.

Technical Scope

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

• AI Systems
• Generative AI
• Predictive AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document references artificial intelligence broadly through the National AI Initiative Act definition. It mentions specific AI tasks and applications (classification, prediction, content generation) and AI-generated content (deepfakes, chatbots) but does not explicitly address technical categories like frontier AI, GPAI, foundation models, or compute thresholds.