Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, Sec. 909 ("Requirement to Ensure Intelligence Community Directives Appropriately Account for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Tools in Intelligence Products")

• 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 risk domains, primarily addressing governance failure (6.5) and lack of transparency (7.4) through its focus on ensuring adequate guidance for AI use in intelligence products. Coverage is limited to procedural oversight rather than substantive risk mitigation.

Sector coverage

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

• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document exclusively governs the National Security sector, specifically addressing AI and machine learning use within intelligence community operations. It does not extend governance to other economic sectors.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding statutory provision enacted by the United States Congress as part of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, imposing mandatory obligations on the Director of National Intelligence with specific deadlines and reporting requirements.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: The document is Section 909 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which is enacted by the United States Congress as the legislative authority.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_User
• Entities: Director of National Intelligence; intelligence community analysts; intelligence community
• Summary: The document targets the Director of National Intelligence who must provide briefings, and intelligence community analysts who use AI and machine learning tools in intelligence products.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional intelligence committees
• Summary: The congressional intelligence committees receive the mandatory briefing and exercise oversight authority over the Director of National Intelligence's compliance with this requirement.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional intelligence committees; Director of National Intelligence
• Summary: The congressional intelligence committees monitor compliance through the briefing requirement, while the Director of National Intelligence is tasked with determining whether existing directives provide sufficient guidance.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Build and Use Model
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on guidance for using AI tools in intelligence products and ensuring transparency about their use. It implicitly covers aspects of Plan and Design through requirements for updating directives.

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 both artificial intelligence and machine learning tools used in intelligence products. It does not specify particular types of AI (frontier, general purpose, task-specific, etc.) or technical thresholds, focusing instead on governance of AI use in intelligence analysis.