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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 1736
5	5	To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct annual assessments
6	6	on terrorism threats to the United States posed by terrorist organizations
7	7	utilizing generative artificial intelligence applications, and for other pur-
8	8	poses.
9	9	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10	10	FEBRUARY27, 2025
11	11	Mr. P
12	12	FLUGER(for himself, Mr. GUEST, and Mr. EVANSof Colorado) intro-
13	13	duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Home-
14	14	land Security
15	15	A BILL
16	16	To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct
17	17	annual assessments on terrorism threats to the United
18	18	States posed by terrorist organizations utilizing genera-
19	19	tive artificial intelligence applications, and for other pur-
20	20	poses.
21	21	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
22	22	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
23	23	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
24	24	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Generative AI Ter-4
25	25	rorism Risk Assessment Act’’. 5
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29	29	SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE USE OF GEN-1
30	30	ERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLI-2
31	31	CATIONS FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITY. 3
32	32	It is the sense of Congress that— 4
33	33	(1) the heightened terrorism threat landscape 5
34	34	and the increasing utilization of generative artificial 6
35	35	intelligence applications by terrorist organizations 7
36	36	represent a national security threat, and the chal-8
37	37	lenges posed by such threat are not well understood; 9
38	38	and 10
39	39	(2) the Department of Homeland Security, in 11
40	40	consultation with the Office of the Director of Na-12
41	41	tional Intelligence, must take steps to recognize, as-13
42	42	sess, and address such threat, thereby reducing risks 14
43	43	to the people of the United States. 15
44	44	SEC. 3. ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS ON TERRORISM THREATS 16
45	45	TO THE UNITED STATES POSED BY TER-17
46	46	RORIST ORGANIZATIONS UTILIZING GENERA-18
47	47	TIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICA-19
48	48	TIONS. 20
49	49	(a) A
50	50	SSESSMENTS.— 21
51	51	(1) I
52	52	N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 22
53	53	after the date of the enactment of this Act and an-23
54	54	nually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of 24
55	55	Homeland Security, in consultation with the Direc-25
56	56	tor of National Intelligence, shall submit to the ap-26
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60	60	propriate congressional committees an assessment of 1
61	61	terrorism threats to the United States posed by ter-2
62	62	rorist organizations utilizing generative artificial in-3
63	63	telligence applications. 4
64	64	(2) C
65	65	ONTENTS.—Each terrorism threat assess-5
66	66	ment under paragraph (1) shall include the fol-6
67	67	lowing: 7
68	68	(A) An analysis of incidents during the im-8
69	69	mediately preceding calendar year in which ter-9
70	70	rorist organizations have utilized or attempted 10
71	71	to utilize generative artificial intelligence appli-11
72	72	cations to carry out the following: 12
73	73	(i) Spread violent extremist messaging 13
74	74	and facilitate the ability to radicalize and 14
75	75	recruit individuals to violence. 15
76	76	(ii) Enhance their ability to develop or 16
77	77	deploy chemical, biological, radiological, or 17
78	78	nuclear weapons. 18
79	79	(B) Recommendations on appropriate 19
80	80	measures to counter terrorism threats to the 20
81	81	United States posed by such terrorist organiza-21
82	82	tions. 22
83	83	(3) C
84	84	OORDINATION.—Each terrorism threat as-23
85	85	sessment under paragraph (1)— 24
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89	89	(A) shall be coordinated with the Office of 1
90	90	the General Counsel, the Privacy Office, and 2
91	91	the Office of for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 3
92	92	of the Department of Homeland Security prior 4
93	93	to release outside the Department to ensure 5
94	94	each such assessment complies with applicable 6
95	95	law and protects individuals’ privacy, civil 7
96	96	rights, and civil liberties, and 8
97	97	(B) may be informed by existing products, 9
98	98	as appropriate. 10
99	99	(4) F
100	100	ORM.—Each terrorism threat assessment 11
101	101	under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassi-12
102	102	fied form, but may include a classified annex only 13
103	103	for the protection of intelligence sources and meth-14
104	104	ods relating to the matters contained in such assess-15
105	105	ment. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 16
106	106	post on a publicly available website of the Depart-17
107	107	ment of Homeland Security the unclassified portion 18
108	108	of each such assessment. 19
109	109	(5) B
110	110	RIEFING.—Not later than 30 days after 20
111	111	the submission of each terrorism threat assessment 21
112	112	under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Homeland Se-22
113	113	curity shall brief the appropriate congressional com-23
114	114	mittees regarding each such assessment. The head 24
115	115	of any other relevant Federal department or agency 25
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119	119	shall join the Secretary for any such briefing if any 1
120	120	such committee, in consultation with the Secretary, 2
121	121	determines such is appropriate. 3
122	122	(6) A
123	123	PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -4
124	124	TEES.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘appropriate 5
125	125	congressional committees’’ means the Committee on 6
126	126	Homeland Security, the Permanent Select Com-7
127	127	mittee on Intelligence, and the Committee on En-8
128	128	ergy and Commerce of the House of Representatives 9
129	129	and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-10
130	130	ernmental Affairs, the Select Committee on Intel-11
131	131	ligence, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 12
132	132	and Transportation of the Senate. 13
133	133	(b) I
134	134	NFORMATION SHARING.—The Secretary of 14
135	135	Homeland Security shall review information relating to 15
136	136	terrorism threats to the United States posed by terrorist 16
137	137	organizations utilizing generative artificial intelligence ap-17
138	138	plications that is gathered by State and local fusion cen-18
139	139	ters and the National Network of Fusion Centers, and in-19
140	140	corporate such information, as appropriate, into the De-20
141	141	partment of Homeland Security’s own information relat-21
142	142	ing to such. The Secretary shall ensure the dissemination 22
143	143	to State and local fusion centers and the National Net-23
144	144	work of Fusion Centers of such information. 24
145	145	(c) D
146	146	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 25
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150	150	(1) GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1
151	151	APPLICATIONS.—The term ‘‘generative artificial in-2
152	152	telligence applications’’ means the class of artificial 3
153	153	intelligence models that emulate the structure and 4
154	154	characteristics of input data in order to generate de-5
155	155	rived synthetic content, including images, videos, 6
156	156	audio, text, and other digital content. 7
157	157	(2) F
158	158	USION CENTER.—The term ‘‘fusion cen-8
159	159	ter’’ has the meaning given such term in subsection 9
160	160	(k) of section 210A of the Homeland Security Act 10
161	161	of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h). 11
162	162	(3) N
163	163	ATIONAL NETWORK OF FUSION CEN -12
164	164	TERS.—The term ‘‘National Network of Fusion Cen-13
165	165	ters’’ means a decentralized arrangement of fusion 14
166	166	centers intended to enhance the ability of individual 15
167	167	State and local fusion centers to leverage the capa-16
168	168	bilities and expertise of all such fusion centers for 17
169	169	the purpose of enhancing analysis and homeland se-18
170	170	curity information sharing nationally. 19
171	171	(4) T
172	172	ERRORIST ORGANIZATION .—The term 20
173	173	‘‘terrorist organization’’ means— 21
174	174	(A) any entity designated as a foreign ter-22
175	175	rorist organization pursuant to section 219 of 23
176	176	the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 24
177	177	1189); or 25
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181	181	(B) any entity engaged in terrorism, as 1
182	182	such term is defined in section 2(18) of the 2
183	183	Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 3
184	184	101(18)). 4
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