{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bonamici.house.gov/media/press-releases/bonamici-williams-introduce-legislation-aid-ai-development", "Bonamici, Williams Introduce Legislation to Aid AI Development", "2024-09-19", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "OR", "Suzanne Bonamici", "B001278", "bonamici.house.gov", "bonamici", "https://bonamici.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, Congressman Brandon Williams (NY-22) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1) introduced the Department of Energy Artificial Intelligence Act of 2024, a bill providing updated guidance for the Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) activities in developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems to carry out missions pertaining to national security, energy-efficiency, and scientific discovery.\n\nThe DOE AI Act of 2024 amends the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 by updating the section directing a Department of Energy artificial intelligence research program. This bill codifies multiple activities and objectives for DOE\u2019s AI research and development activities, including:\n\nAuthorizing the activities of the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) initiative, an effort between the DOE and its seventeen National Laboratories to build the most powerful integrated scientific AI systems in the world,\n\nFacilitating the development of high-performance computing systems and artificial intelligence platforms through DOE-owned infrastructure data and computing facilities,\n\nAuthorizing at least one data center testbed for the development and assessment of hardware and algorithms for energy-efficient AI training, and\n\nDirecting the DOE to establish partnerships with nonprofit organizations and private companies for the purpose of collaboration toward shared goals of scientific discovery and technological innovation in the field of AI.\n\n\u201cThis is the kind of technology that will define the coming eras of human history. To ensure prosperity at home and maintain America\u2019s scientific advantage abroad, we must innovate. We must utilize every resource available to develop newer, stronger, safer tech which, in turn, will spur advances in national security, energy-efficiency, manufacturing, and more,\u201d said Congressman Williams.\n\n\u201cArtificial intelligence is evolving rapidly and the government must be equipped to respond to new developments and stay on the cutting edge,\u201dsaid Congresswoman Bonamici.\u201cI\u2019m introducing the bipartisan DOE AI Act with Rep. Williams to position the Department of Energy to develop high-performance platforms, responsibly cultivate training data, and improve energy efficiency to support safe AI innovation.\u201d\n\nThe full bill is available here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bonamici.house.gov/media/press-releases/bonamici-williams-introduce-legislation-aid-ai-development"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.894634984433651, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}