Political BIAS Emails Act of 2023

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-03

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 AI risk domains, with limited focus on AI system transparency (7.4) and governance failure (6.5). The document primarily addresses email filtering algorithms in a narrow political context rather than comprehensive AI risk management.

Sector coverage

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

• Information

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector, specifically email service providers that use filtering algorithms. It regulates how these providers handle political campaign emails through algorithmic filtering systems.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding federal statute with mandatory obligations, explicit enforcement mechanisms through the FTC, and penalties for non-compliance.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The document is a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by the named representatives and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Deployer, AI_Infrastructure_Provider
• Summary: The Act explicitly targets operators of email services that use filtering algorithms, with specific exclusions for smaller operators based on employee count and revenue thresholds.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The FTC is explicitly designated as the enforcement body with full authority to enforce violations as unfair or deceptive acts or practices.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, Affected_Stakeholder
• Summary: The FTC has monitoring authority through its enforcement role. Additionally, the Act mandates public transparency reports and provides political campaigns with data access rights, enabling stakeholder monitoring.

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

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on the use of filtering algorithms in production email systems and requiring ongoing transparency reporting and monitoring of their performance.

Technical Scope

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

• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions filtering algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques in the context of email filtering. It does not reference AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, or compute thresholds.