Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act

This bill changes the law that governs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It adds a duty for NIST to assess trends in what artificial intelligence systems can do, including whether AI can carry out or assist research and development of other AI systems on its own. It also bars the NIST Director from signing agreements with developers of frontier AI systems to test those systems before release unless two conditions are met. First, the agreement must require the developer to share information, when the Director asks, about how much AI was used to build the system, such as internal metrics, estimates of AI use without human review, and how those estimates were made. Second, the testing must include a check of whether the system can carry out or assist AI research and development on its own.

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Sponsors

• George Whitesides Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors