HR7058-119

What This Bill Does

The Foreign Adversary AI Risk Assessment and Diplomacy Act requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with other relevant federal agencies, to submit an assessment to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee within 180 days of enactment and annually thereafter for three years. The assessment must focus on risks to the United States from foreign adversaries using generative artificial intelligence for malicious activities.

Each assessment must analyze incidents during the preceding calendar year in which foreign adversaries used or tried to use generative AI against the United States or its allies. Covered uses include synthetic media, anti-U.S. propaganda, foreign malign influence operations, chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons development, malicious cyber operations, and other military, surveillance, or intelligence capabilities.

The bill also requires analysis of emerging trends, attribution to specific foreign adversaries where possible, implications for U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic engagement, and the development of U.S. and allied international norms and standards. The assessment must include recommendations to mitigate and counter the risks. Section 4 defines artificial intelligence, generative AI applications, foreign adversary, and the covered congressional committees.

Who Benefits and How

Congressional foreign-affairs committees benefit from recurring classified or unclassified risk assessments on adversary generative AI use. State Department diplomats benefit because the assessment links AI threats to diplomatic engagement, norms, and standards. U.S. allies benefit if the assessments identify synthetic-media, cyber, CBRN, surveillance, or military risks targeting allied interests. U.S. citizens benefit if the government better counters foreign influence operations and synthetic propaganda. Cybersecurity and national-security agencies benefit from structured annual incident analysis and mitigation recommendations.

Who Bears the Burden and How

State Department AI-risk staff must coordinate the assessment, analyze incidents, identify trends, and prepare recommendations each year for three years. Other federal national-security agencies must share information and expertise. Intelligence analysts may need to attribute incidents to specific foreign adversaries. Foreign adversary actors bear a strategic burden if the assessment supports diplomatic, cyber, or standards-based countermeasures. Congressional committees must review the recurring assessments and use them for oversight.

Key Provisions

• Requires a foreign-adversary generative AI risk assessment within 180 days.
• Requires annual assessments for three years.
• Requires analysis of synthetic media, propaganda, malign influence, CBRN weapons support, cyber operations, military capabilities, surveillance, and intelligence uses.
• Requires analysis of emerging trends and attribution to specific foreign adversaries where possible.
• Requires assessment of implications for U.S. diplomacy, allied norms, and international standards.
• Requires recommendations to mitigate and counter the identified risks.
• Defines generative artificial intelligence applications and foreign adversary for the Act.