HR6996-119

What This Bill Does

The Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act sets a U.S. policy goal of maintaining U.S. dominance in global artificial intelligence deployment and driving allies and partners to build AI on U.S.-developed models, U.S. cloud operators, U.S.-owned or operated data centers, and U.S.-designed AI semiconductors. It also aims to reduce export barriers for U.S. AI firms, counter Chinese influence in AI governance bodies, prevent illicit foreign-adversary access to U.S. AI deployed abroad, and maintain a majority of global AI computing capacity and memory bandwidth in the United States.

Commerce must create a program to identify and receive proposals from industry consortia that meet U.S.-approved security requirements and standards for exporting the U.S. full AI stack to allies and partners. State, in consultation with Commerce, must increase efforts to eliminate foreign barriers through industry listening sessions, an industry hotline, diplomatic escalation, and a diplomatic strategy for market access, communicating U.S. AI benefits, and promoting U.S.-aligned international AI governance.

State, DNI, and Commerce must study the economic, diplomatic, technological, and security impact of global U.S. AI stack deployment and identify priority regions and countries. Commerce, State, Defense, and Energy must work with foreign purchasers to institute security measures preventing illicit or unauthorized adversary access, including standardized security requirements, agreements with countries, remote-access protections, supply-chain checks, and reports. Commerce and State must create confidence practices, product offerings, or standards for major national purchasers. Commerce, DNI, and State must publish a biannual AI export success tracker for five years measuring national AI compute, memory bandwidth, U.S.-designed AI chips, U.S.-operated data centers, U.S.-owned models, U.S. cloud revenue, and data-processing capacity.

Who Benefits and How

U.S. AI semiconductor designers benefit because the bill measures and promotes global use of U.S.-designed AI integrated circuits. U.S. cloud operators benefit because the policy favors AI deployment through U.S.-owned or operated cloud infrastructure and tracks global cloud revenue and capacity. U.S. data center firms benefit from export promotion and reporting on U.S.-owned or operated AI data centers. U.S. AI model developers benefit because the bill promotes global model usage by U.S.-owned or operated firms. Industry consortia benefit from a Commerce program for export proposals. Allied foreign purchasers benefit from U.S. diplomatic support, confidence standards, and security measures for buying the U.S. full AI stack.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Commerce export-promotion staff must establish the consortia program, security measures, purchaser-confidence practices, and export success tracker. State Department diplomats must hold industry listening sessions, run a hotline, eliminate foreign barriers, write the diplomatic strategy, and advocate U.S.-aligned AI governance. Foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack must implement security measures to prevent adversary access, including remote-access and supply-chain controls. DNI, Defense, and Energy officials must support studies, security reporting, and classified annexes. Foreign adversary AI firms may lose market share if allies and partners adopt U.S. models, cloud, data centers, and chips.

Key Provisions

• Establishes U.S. policy to maintain dominance in global AI deployment and adoption of the U.S. full AI stack.
• Creates a Commerce program for industry consortia proposing exports to allies and partners.
• Requires State to remove foreign barriers through listening sessions, a hotline, diplomatic channels, and a diplomatic strategy.
• Requires a State-DNI-Commerce study on global AI deployment and priority countries.
• Requires Commerce-led security measures to prevent foreign-adversary access to the U.S. full AI stack abroad.
• Requires purchaser-confidence practices, product offerings, or standards for major national purchasers.
• Requires a biannual public AI export success tracker for five years, with a possible classified annex.
• Defines the full AI stack, AI integrated circuits, national computing capacity, national memory bandwidth, and foreign adversaries.