China AI Threat Assessment Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6909 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6909

 To direct the Director of National Intelligence to produce a National 
 Intelligence Estimate on artificial intelligence systems developed or 
        deployed by entities in the People's Republic of China.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2025

  Mr. Vindman (for himself and Mr. Pfluger) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on 
                              Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Director of National Intelligence to produce a National 
 Intelligence Estimate on artificial intelligence systems developed or 
        deployed by entities in the People's Republic of China.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``China AI Threat Assessment Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Artificial intelligence systems developed by the 
        People's Republic of China may embed strategic, ideological, or 
        discriminatory biases that reflect the political or military 
        objectives of China.
            (2) A National Intelligence Estimate is needed to evaluate 
        the risks these systems pose to United States national security 
        and democratic institutions.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON CHINESE AI SYSTEMS.

    (a) Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall 
submit to Congress a National Intelligence Estimate on artificial 
intelligence systems developed or deployed by entities in the People's 
Republic of China.
    (b) Elements.--The National Intelligence Estimate required under 
subsection (a) shall include--
            (1) an evaluation of whether and to what extent China-
        developed commercial AI systems exhibit embedded algorithmic 
        bias, including targeting or discriminatory logic based on 
        ethnicity, religion, political views, or nationality;
            (2) an analysis of the training data sources, model 
        architectures, and intended use cases of such systems;
            (3) an assessment of potential use of such AI systems for 
        foreign influence operations, surveillance, or information 
        manipulation targeting the United States or its allies;
            (4) identification of risks posed by the global 
        proliferation of these systems to democratic norms, civil 
        liberties, and military decision-making; and
            (5) recommendations for how the intelligence community and 
        United States allies should monitor, assess, and counter malign 
        uses of Chinese AI technology.
    (c) Coordination.--In preparing the National Intelligence Estimate 
under subsection (a), the Director shall coordinate with the heads of 
relevant elements of the intelligence community, including the Director 
of the National Security Agency and the Director of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency.
    (d) Artificial Intelligence Defined.--In this section, the terms 
``artificial intelligence'' and ``AI'' mean any system, algorithm, 
software, or model, including those that are commercially available, 
that performs tasks requiring human-like cognition, including 
perception, prediction, autonomous decision-making, natural language 
understanding, or control of physical or digital systems.
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