Intelligence Authorization Act FY 2024, Sec. 909 ("Ensure IC Directives Account for AI and ML Tools in Intelligence Products")

Summary

Requires the Director of National Intelligence to brief congressional intelligence committees within 120 days on whether current intelligence community directives provide sufficient guidance on the use of AI and machine learning tools in intelligence products.

Mandates the briefing to include a determination of whether Intelligence Community Directives 203 and 206, and other relevant directives, offer adequate guidance on using, sourcing, and providing transparency for AI and machine learning tools.

Requires the Director to assess if these directives need updates to enhance guidance and direction.

Obligates the Director to explain why no updates are needed if deemed sufficient, or to provide a plan and timeline for necessary updates if improvements are required.

Requires the Director of National Intelligence to brief Congress on AI guidance in intelligence community directives.

SEC. 909. REQUIREMENT TO ENSURE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY DIRECTIVES APPROPRIATELY ACCOUNT FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS IN INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS.

(a) Requirement.—Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall provide to the congressional intelligence committees a briefing on whether intelligence community directives in effect as of the date such briefing is provided furnish intelligence community analysts with sufficient guidance and direction with respect to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in intelligence products produced by the intelligence community.

Requires the Director to evaluate whether current intelligence community directives adequately guide transparent and properly sourced use of AI in intelligence products and, if not, explains the need for updates and provides a plan and timeline to implement them.

(b) Elements.—The briefing required under subsection (a) shall include—

(1) a determination by the Director as to—

(A) whether Intelligence Community Directive 203, Analytic Standards, Intelligence Community Directive 206, Sourcing Requirements for Disseminated Analytic Products, and any other intelligence community directive related to the production and dissemination of intelligence products by the intelligence community in effect as of the date the briefing under subsection (a) is provided furnish intelligence community analysts with sufficient guidance and direction on how to properly use, provide sourcing information about, and otherwise provide transparency to customers regarding the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in intelligence products produced by the intelligence community; and

(B) whether any intelligence community directive described in subparagraph (A) requires an update to provide such guidance and direction; and

(2) with respect to the determination under paragraph (1)—

(A) in the case the Director makes a determination that no update to an intelligence community directive described in such paragraph is required, an explanation regarding why such intelligence community directives currently provide sufficient guidance and direction to intelligence community analysts; and

(B) in the case the Director makes a determination that an update to an intelligence community directive described in such paragraph is required, a plan and proposed timeline to update any such intelligence community directive.