“To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit AI-based impersonation of Federal officials.”
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This section amends the federal impersonation statute (18 U.S.C. § 912), which prohibits falsely pretending to be a U.S. officer or employee and acting as such or obtaining something of value (punishable by fine or imprisonment for up to three years), by (1) redesignating the existing provision as subsection (a); and (2) adding at the end subsections (b) and (c). New subsection (b) prohibits knowingly using artificial intelligence to impersonate a federal officer or employee—including by mimicking voice or likeness without an explicit disclaimer—to produce materially false or misleading content, subject to the same penalties, while excepting legitimate uses in satire, parody, or First Amendment-protected expressive conduct with clear disclosure of inauthenticity. New subsection (c) defines "artificial intelligence" as any system or software performing tasks normally requiring human intelligence, including generative models producing human-like audio, video, or text, and "impersonates" as falsely representing oneself as another identifiable individual (real or fictitious) in a manner reasonably likely to deceive as to authenticity.