Promoting Precision Agriculture 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.

• AI system security vulnerabilities

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains, with only subdomain 2.2 (AI system security vulnerabilities) receiving a coverage score of 2. The document briefly mentions cybersecurity challenges facing precision agriculture but does not provide comprehensive governance measures. All other risk subdomains receive a coverage score of 1 as they are not addressed in this legislation focused on developing interconnectivity standards for precision agriculture.

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

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation primarily governs the Agriculture sector by mandating development of interconnectivity standards for precision agriculture. It also has implications for the Information sector through requirements for data management, connectivity, and communications technology standards.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with mandatory obligations on the Secretary of Agriculture and the Comptroller General, using mandatory language throughout.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Mr. Davis of North Carolina; Mr. Mann; United States Congress; Committee on Agriculture
• Summary: The bill was introduced by Representatives Davis of North Carolina and Mann in the House of Representatives and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, indicating these Congressional actors as the proposers.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Entities: Secretary of Agriculture; voluntary consensus standards development organizations; relevant public and trusted private sector stakeholders; agriculture producers
• Summary: The Act targets the Secretary of Agriculture who must develop standards, and applies to private sector stakeholders, standards development organizations, and agriculture producers who would adopt precision agriculture technologies.

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 and implementing the standards, in consultation with NIST Director and FCC.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Comptroller General of the United States; Government Accountability Office; 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 periodic assessments of the standards' effectiveness and report findings to multiple Congressional committees.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Plan and Design stage by mandating development of interconnectivity standards for precision agriculture. It also covers the Operate and Monitor stage through required periodic assessments of standards effectiveness. The document does not substantially address data collection, model building, verification/validation, or deployment stages.

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 as one consideration for developing precision agriculture standards. It does not mention AI models, AI systems, or any specific categories of AI (frontier, general purpose, task-specific, foundation models, generative, predictive). There is no mention of compute thresholds or open-weight/open-source models.