LISTOS Act

• 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

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

• Exposure to toxic content
• Unequal performance across groups
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Governance failure
• Lack of capability or robustness
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

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

• Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation
• Compromise of privacy
• False or misleading information
• Pollution of information ecosystem
• Power centralization and unfair distribution

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 5-6 subdomains, with strong focus on unequal performance across groups (1.3), exposure to toxic content (1.2), disinformation and surveillance (4.1), fraud and manipulation (4.3), and governance failure (6.5). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination/toxicity, malicious actors, and socioeconomic domains.

Sector coverage

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

• Information

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

• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector, specifically large online platforms including social media platforms, online search engines, and messaging services. It does not substantively govern other economic sectors, though it mentions impacts on various sectors through the lens of harmful online content.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding federal statute (H.R. 3806) with mandatory obligations enforced by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, including civil penalties and enforcement mechanisms.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress; Mr. Cárdenas; Mr. Soto; Ms. Barragán; Mr. Costa; Mr. Espaillat; Mr. Vargas; Mr. García of Illinois; Mr. Castro of Texas; Committee on Energy and Commerce; Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Summary: The bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Cárdenas and co-sponsors, then referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and Committee on Foreign Affairs for consideration.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Deployer
• Entities: Large online platforms with at least 10,000,000 monthly active users
• Summary: The Act targets 'covered platforms' defined as websites, internet applications, or mobile applications that allow user-generated content and have at least 10 million monthly active users in the United States for 3 or more of the past 12 months.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Federal Trade Commission (FTC); State attorneys general
• Summary: The FTC is designated as the primary enforcement body with authority to treat violations as unfair or deceptive practices. State attorneys general are also granted enforcement authority to bring civil actions on behalf of state residents.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies
• Summary: The FTC receives annual reports from covered platforms on content moderation practices. The Act also establishes an Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies to provide guidance and best practices to the Commission.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Build and Use Model
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on content moderation systems already in production. It requires consistent enforcement across languages, annual reporting on algorithmic processes, and ongoing monitoring of performance metrics.

Technical Scope

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

• AI Systems
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly addresses AI systems (algorithmic content moderation and automated content detection), but does not mention AI models, frontier AI, GPAI, foundation models, or compute thresholds. It focuses on automated systems for content moderation including natural language processing and image/video processing technologies.