HR 5784 Artificial Intelligence Wisdom for Innovative Small Enterprises Act 2025

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Proposed
• Most recent activity date: 2026-01-20

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• Compromise of privacy
• AI system security vulnerabilities
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Loss of human agency and autonomy
• Lack of capability or robustness
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal to no coverage of specific AI risk domains. While it addresses AI education for small businesses, it does not substantively cover the risks and harms described in the MIT taxonomy. The document focuses on educational resource development rather than risk mitigation or governance of specific AI harms.

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.

• Educational Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document does not govern AI use within specific economic sectors. Instead, it governs the Small Business Administration's obligation to create educational resources for small businesses across all sectors. The governance applies to a federal agency's educational and outreach activities, not to AI deployment in any particular industry.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding federal statute enacted by the U.S. Congress with mandatory obligations on the Small Business Administration, using mandatory language ('shall') throughout and establishing specific requirements with a 180-day implementation deadline.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress; House of Representatives
• Summary: The document is a federal bill passed by the House of Representatives, as indicated by the header and footer. Congress is the proposing authority for this legislation.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_User
• Entities: Small Business Administration; small business concerns; resource partners (Small Business Development Centers, Women's Business Centers, SCORE, etc.)
• Summary: The primary target is the Small Business Administration, which must establish educational resources. The secondary beneficiaries/targets are small business concerns who will use these educational resources to evaluate AI tools, and resource partners who will disseminate the information.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Small Business Administration (Administrator)
• Summary: The Small Business Administration, through its Administrator, is responsible for implementing and enforcing the requirements of this Act. As a federal agency implementing statutory requirements, it serves as the enforcer.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Small Business Administration (Administrator); Advisory Working Group; National Institute of Standards and Technology (Director)
• Summary: The Administrator is responsible for ongoing monitoring and maintenance of the educational resources. An Advisory Working Group is established to provide ongoing consultation, and NIST is consulted to ensure accuracy and currency of information.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages for AI development or deployment. Instead, it addresses the creation of educational resources about AI tools for small businesses. The lifecycle stages covered relate to how small businesses should evaluate and adopt AI tools (planning, deployment, and monitoring of AI use), rather than the development lifecycle of AI systems themselves.

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 tools' and 'artificial intelligence models' throughout. It references the definition from the National Defense Authorization Act but does not distinguish between different types of AI (frontier, general purpose, task-specific, etc.). There is no mention of compute thresholds, open-weight models, or specific AI architectures.