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119-s-3202119th Congress

Advanced Artificial Intelligence Security Readiness Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Young, Todd [R-IN]

Introduced

Summary

Securing advanced artificial intelligence and its supply chain from nation-state theft and sabotage. This bill would direct the National Security Agency's Artificial Intelligence Security Center to develop and share security guidance that identifies AI-specific vulnerabilities and defenses. The guidance must identify risky supply chain elements and provide practical strategies to protect model weights, reduce insider threats, control network access, and recover from attacks. It must be issued in unclassified form with an optional classified annex and may include classified materials for security briefings.

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  • AI developers and researchers would be consulted through document reviews, interviews, panels, and facility visits and would receive unclassified best practices to harden models and training environments.
  • Companies that operate or host AI systems and service providers would get detailed mitigation steps, including personnel vetting, network access controls, counterintelligence measures, and procedures to protect model artifacts.
  • Federal laboratories, university-affiliated research centers, and federally funded research and development centers would be asked to collaborate and share expertise to shape the guidance.
  • The NSA would deliver an initial report on guidance development within 180 days and a final report with a publicly available unclassified version within 365 days to the congressional intelligence committees.

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New AI security guidance for developers

If enacted, the bill would require the NSA Director, through an AI Security Center, to create and share guidance on how to find and fix security gaps in advanced AI systems. The guidance would name risky supply-chain parts, ways attackers steal models, and steps to protect model weights and other sensitive artifacts. It would include unclassified best practices for the private sector and may include a classified annex and briefing materials. The Director would consult industry, national labs, universities, and other agencies. The Director would deliver an initial report to congressional intelligence committees within 180 days and a final report within 365 days after enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Young, Todd [R-IN]

IN • R

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 11/19/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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