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Yes: 393 • No: 29
117-s-2551117th CongressWALLET
AI Training Act
Sponsored By: Senator Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Became Law
Summary
A mandatory AI training program for the federal acquisition and related workforce ensures employees who manage, procure, design, test, or estimate systems learn AI capabilities, risks, and how to mitigate them.
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- Covered workers: The program targets employees in program management, research, development, engineering, testing, quality assurance, procurement and contracting, logistics, and cost estimating. Agency heads can designate additional personnel.
- Scope and timing: It applies to civilian executive agencies under 41 U.S.C. 133 and excludes the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration. OMB, with the General Services Administration, must develop the program within 1 year, require training at least annually, and update content at least every 2 years.
- Administration and budget: OMB must measure participation and collect participant feedback and is encouraged to use outside technologists and scholars. The statute does not authorize a new funding stream and includes a 10-year sunset.
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Annual AI training for federal staff
The law requires OMB, working with GSA, to set up an AI training program for executive agencies within 1 year of enactment. It covers staff in program work, engineering and testing, procurement, logistics, and cost estimating, plus others named by agency heads. Training is offered at least once a year and updated at least every 2 years. Lessons include how AI works, how it can help, risks like bias and privacy, and how to reduce those risks, plus future trends. OMB tracks participation and gathers feedback, may use interactive sessions with outside experts, and this program ends 10 years after enactment. This applies to executive agencies, not the Department of Defense or the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
MI • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
OH • R
Sponsored 7/29/2021
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 9/29/2022
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 393 • No: 29