H.R. 6996 — Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act

This section states the following congressional findings on artificial intelligence (AI): (1) the United States is competing globally for AI dominance, with the winner gaining broad economic and military benefits; (2) winning this competition will promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security; (3) establishing U.S. AI as the worldwide gold standard and ensuring allies use U.S. technology will help the United States prevail; and (4) advanced AI compute is essential for economic dynamism and military capabilities, and denying foreign adversaries access to it advances geostrategic competition and national security.

This section declares it the policy of the United States to (1) maintain U.S. dominance in global artificial intelligence (AI) deployment; (2) drive adoption of the U.S. full AI stack (i.e., U.S.-developed AI models, run by U.S. cloud operators, U.S.-owned or operated data centers, and U.S.-designed AI semiconductors) by allies and partners; (3) ensure global AI deployment is based on the U.S. full AI stack; (4) reduce barriers to U.S. firms exporting the U.S. full AI stack; (5) counter Chinese influence in international governance bodies and ensure global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack strengthens U.S. values abroad; (6) prevent illicit foreign adversary access to the U.S. full AI stack deployed abroad; (7) ensure global AI deployment strengthens the qualitative military superiority of the United States and its allies over foreign adversaries; and (8) maintain a U.S. majority of globally deployed AI computing capacity and memory bandwidth.

This section requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program to identify and receive proposals, meeting U.S. security requirements and standards, from industry consortia to facilitate export of the U.S. full AI stack (i.e., complete suite of artificial intelligence technologies, hardware, and software) to allies and partners, with eligibility limited to consortia established solely for this purpose. The section further requires the Secretary to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the program's status and results not later than 180 days after the program's establishment.

This section directs the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to increase efforts to eliminate foreign barriers to exporting the U.S. full AI stack through activities such as (1) holding regular industry listening sessions, (2) establishing an industry hotline to communicate barriers, (3) elevating diplomatic channels, and (4) other relevant actions. The section further requires the Secretary of State to establish, not later than 180 days after enactment, a diplomatic strategy to (1) ease U.S. AI companies' access to foreign markets, (2) communicate the importance and benefits of the U.S. full AI stack to foreign countries, and (3) leverage U.S. positions in international diplomatic and standard-setting bodies to advocate for AI governance promoting innovation, American values, and countering authoritarian influence. Finally, the section requires the Secretary of Commerce to submit the strategy and an implementation update to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 180 days after the strategy's completion.

This section directs the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a study on the benefits and impacts of the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack, addressing (1) its economic, diplomatic, and technological impacts on the United States and allies; (2) effects on U.S. leadership in those areas; (3) assistance to countries in achieving economic prosperity, improving quality of life, and expanding healthcare, education, and AI access; (4) its global competitive position relative to foreign technologies; (5) enhancements to U.S. and allied security, including military superiority over adversaries; and (6) priority regions and countries for export. The section requires a report on the study to appropriate congressional committees within 180 days of enactment, in unclassified form with a possible classified annex.

This section directs the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Energy, to work with foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack to institute security measures preventing illicit or unauthorized foreign adversary access to such stack. Not later than 180 days after enactment, the Secretary must submit to the appropriate congressional committees an unclassified report (which may include a classified annex) on the development and implementation of those measures, addressing (1) plans to accelerate secure deployment of the U.S. full AI stack abroad, such as through standardized security requirements; (2) agreements promoting its adoption while blocking adversary access; (3) required security measures by foreign purchasers to prevent transfers to adversaries, including via remote access; (4) foreign adversary hardware and software in those purchasers' AI supply chains and related mitigation measures; and (5) other relevant security information.

This section directs the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Energy and the public (including industry consortia identified in section 4), to develop, not later than 180 days after enactment, generally applicable practices, product offerings, or related standards demonstrating the privacy, confidentiality, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. full AI stack for the economic and security goals of major foreign purchasers.

This section directs the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, to produce an estimate of the success of U.S. full AI stack exports (known as the "AI export success tracker") not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act and biannually thereafter for five years. The tracker must include (1) estimates of each country's installed AI, measured by total national computing capacity and total national memory bandwidth; (2) the proportion of globally installed AI integrated circuits designed by U.S. firms; (3) the proportion of globally installed AI in data centers owned or operated by U.S. firms, with regional or country breakdowns; (4) the proportion of global AI model usage (measured by tokens processed) for models owned or operated by U.S. firms, with regional or country breakdowns; and (5) the proportion of global cloud computing services revenue and data-processing capacity attributable to cloud operators owned or operated by U.S. firms. The Secretary must submit unclassified reports containing these estimates to the appropriate congressional committees and make them publicly available, with a possible classified annex.

This section defines nine terms used in the Act: (1) appropriate congressional committees (i.e., House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee); (2) artificial intelligence integrated circuits (i.e., semiconductor devices marketed for AI model training, inference, or acceleration, including graphics processing units); (3) foreign adversaries (i.e., covered nations as defined in 10 U.S.C. 4872(f)); (4) full AI stack (i.e., compute and data infrastructure enabling AI research and development); (5) national computing capacity (i.e., aggregate maximum FLOP/s available within a country for large-scale AI training or inference); (6) national memory bandwidth (i.e., aggregate maximum data transfer rate in bytes per second for such systems); (7) U.S. artificial intelligence semiconductor products (i.e., AI integrated circuits with design activities conducted in the United States); (8) U.S. full AI stack (i.e., parts of the full AI stack where U.S.-headquartered entities are key developers, manufacturers, or providers); and (9) token (i.e., basic unit of text, code, or data processed by an AI model).