Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, Section 834 ("Plan for Artificial Intelligence Digital Ecosystem")

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2022-03-15

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
• Governance failure
• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage of risk domains, with limited focus on privacy (2.1), governance failure (6.5), and system safety (7.3, 7.4). The document primarily addresses infrastructure and ecosystem development rather than specific AI risks and harms.

Sector coverage

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

• National Security

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

• Information
• Scientific Research & Development Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs the National Security sector, specifically the intelligence community's development and use of AI. It also has minimal coverage of the Information sector through references to AI companies and Scientific Research and Development Services through the development of AI technologies.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act passed by the United States Congress with mandatory language requiring the Director of National Intelligence to develop and submit a plan within a specified timeframe.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: The document is a section of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, which is enacted by the United States Congress as the legislative authority.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Developer
• Entities: Director of National Intelligence; elements of the intelligence community; small- and medium-sized artificial intelligence companies
• Summary: The document targets the Director of National Intelligence and intelligence community elements who must develop the plan, as well as AI companies who would access classified facilities under the proposed policies.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional intelligence committees
• Summary: The congressional intelligence committees serve as the enforcement body by receiving and reviewing the required plan submission.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional intelligence committees
• Summary: The congressional intelligence committees monitor compliance through the plan submission requirement and ongoing oversight of intelligence community activities.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document covers multiple AI lifecycle stages with primary focus on Plan and Design, Build and Use Model, Deploy, and Operate and Monitor. It addresses the development of infrastructure and processes for AI application development, testing, fielding, and continuous updating across the intelligence community.

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 applications and capabilities, with references to AI-powered applications, AI companies, and AI capabilities. It does not specify particular types of AI (frontier, general purpose, task-specific, generative, predictive) or mention compute thresholds or open-weight models.