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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1736
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct annual assessments
on terrorism threats to the United States posed by terrorist organizations
utilizing generative artificial intelligence applications, and for other pur-
poses.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Mr. P
FLUGER(for himself, Mr. GUEST, and Mr. EVANSof Colorado) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Home-
land Security
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct
annual assessments on terrorism threats to the United
States posed by terrorist organizations utilizing genera-
tive artificial intelligence applications, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Generative AI Ter-4
rorism Risk Assessment Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE USE OF GEN-1
ERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLI-2
CATIONS FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITY. 3
It is the sense of Congress that— 4
(1) the heightened terrorism threat landscape 5
and the increasing utilization of generative artificial 6
intelligence applications by terrorist organizations 7
represent a national security threat, and the chal-8
lenges posed by such threat are not well understood; 9
and 10
(2) the Department of Homeland Security, in 11
consultation with the Office of the Director of Na-12
tional Intelligence, must take steps to recognize, as-13
sess, and address such threat, thereby reducing risks 14
to the people of the United States. 15
SEC. 3. ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS ON TERRORISM THREATS 16
TO THE UNITED STATES POSED BY TER-17
RORIST ORGANIZATIONS UTILIZING GENERA-18
TIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICA-19
TIONS. 20
(a) A
SSESSMENTS.— 21
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 22
after the date of the enactment of this Act and an-23
nually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of 24
Homeland Security, in consultation with the Direc-25
tor of National Intelligence, shall submit to the ap-26
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propriate congressional committees an assessment of 1
terrorism threats to the United States posed by ter-2
rorist organizations utilizing generative artificial in-3
telligence applications. 4
(2) C
ONTENTS.—Each terrorism threat assess-5
ment under paragraph (1) shall include the fol-6
lowing: 7
(A) An analysis of incidents during the im-8
mediately preceding calendar year in which ter-9
rorist organizations have utilized or attempted 10
to utilize generative artificial intelligence appli-11
cations to carry out the following: 12
(i) Spread violent extremist messaging 13
and facilitate the ability to radicalize and 14
recruit individuals to violence. 15
(ii) Enhance their ability to develop or 16
deploy chemical, biological, radiological, or 17
nuclear weapons. 18
(B) Recommendations on appropriate 19
measures to counter terrorism threats to the 20
United States posed by such terrorist organiza-21
tions. 22
(3) C
OORDINATION.—Each terrorism threat as-23
sessment under paragraph (1)— 24
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(A) shall be coordinated with the Office of 1
the General Counsel, the Privacy Office, and 2
the Office of for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 3
of the Department of Homeland Security prior 4
to release outside the Department to ensure 5
each such assessment complies with applicable 6
law and protects individuals’ privacy, civil 7
rights, and civil liberties, and 8
(B) may be informed by existing products, 9
as appropriate. 10
(4) F
ORM.—Each terrorism threat assessment 11
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassi-12
fied form, but may include a classified annex only 13
for the protection of intelligence sources and meth-14
ods relating to the matters contained in such assess-15
ment. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 16
post on a publicly available website of the Depart-17
ment of Homeland Security the unclassified portion 18
of each such assessment. 19
(5) B
RIEFING.—Not later than 30 days after 20
the submission of each terrorism threat assessment 21
under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Homeland Se-22
curity shall brief the appropriate congressional com-23
mittees regarding each such assessment. The head 24
of any other relevant Federal department or agency 25
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shall join the Secretary for any such briefing if any 1
such committee, in consultation with the Secretary, 2
determines such is appropriate. 3
(6) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -4
TEES.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘appropriate 5
congressional committees’’ means the Committee on 6
Homeland Security, the Permanent Select Com-7
mittee on Intelligence, and the Committee on En-8
ergy and Commerce of the House of Representatives 9
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-10
ernmental Affairs, the Select Committee on Intel-11
ligence, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 12
and Transportation of the Senate. 13
(b) I
NFORMATION SHARING.—The Secretary of 14
Homeland Security shall review information relating to 15
terrorism threats to the United States posed by terrorist 16
organizations utilizing generative artificial intelligence ap-17
plications that is gathered by State and local fusion cen-18
ters and the National Network of Fusion Centers, and in-19
corporate such information, as appropriate, into the De-20
partment of Homeland Security’s own information relat-21
ing to such. The Secretary shall ensure the dissemination 22
to State and local fusion centers and the National Net-23
work of Fusion Centers of such information. 24
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 25
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(1) GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1
APPLICATIONS.—The term ‘‘generative artificial in-2
telligence applications’’ means the class of artificial 3
intelligence models that emulate the structure and 4
characteristics of input data in order to generate de-5
rived synthetic content, including images, videos, 6
audio, text, and other digital content. 7
(2) F
USION CENTER.—The term ‘‘fusion cen-8
ter’’ has the meaning given such term in subsection 9
(k) of section 210A of the Homeland Security Act 10
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h). 11
(3) N
ATIONAL NETWORK OF FUSION CEN -12
TERS.—The term ‘‘National Network of Fusion Cen-13
ters’’ means a decentralized arrangement of fusion 14
centers intended to enhance the ability of individual 15
State and local fusion centers to leverage the capa-16
bilities and expertise of all such fusion centers for 17
the purpose of enhancing analysis and homeland se-18
curity information sharing nationally. 19
(4) T
ERRORIST ORGANIZATION .—The term 20
‘‘terrorist organization’’ means— 21
(A) any entity designated as a foreign ter-22
rorist organization pursuant to section 219 of 23
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 24
1189); or 25
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(B) any entity engaged in terrorism, as 1
such term is defined in section 2(18) of the 2
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 3
101(18)). 4
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