§823 Report required

Summary

The Secretary, working with the Administrator, must send a detailed report no later than 1 year after December 23, 2022, and then every 10 years. The report goes to four congressional committees: the Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and on Armed Services, and the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and on Armed Services. The report is based on the coordination and input required under section 822. The report must estimate overall global catastrophic and existential risk for the next 30 years (showing chances and possible harm). It must analyze the biggest specific threats with likelihoods, consequences, and uncertainties; list all potential catastrophic threats (even very unlikely); give technical and plain explanations; say what limits assessment and how to fix them; forecast whether risk will change over the next 10 years; propose how the government can keep assessing risk; recommend laws if needed; and include other items the Secretary and Administrator decide. To prepare the report, the Secretary must regularly consult experts on severe pandemics, nuclear war, asteroid or comet impacts, supervolcanoes, sudden major climate shifts, and accidental or intentional dangers from new technologies, and must share what is learned with the federal partners named in section 822(b).