Bill Summary
The "Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act" is a legislative proposal aimed at enhancing the global export of U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) systems, computing hardware, and standards. The primary objectives outlined in the bill include:
1. **Establishing U.S. Dominance in AI**: The Act emphasizes the importance of maintaining U.S. leadership in the AI sector, recognizing that success in this field has significant economic and military implications.
2. **Promoting U.S. Technology**: It seeks to encourage allies and partners to adopt U.S.-developed AI technologies, thereby establishing them as global standards.
3. **Reducing Export Barriers**: The legislation proposes measures to lower obstacles for U.S. companies wishing to export AI technologies, including engaging with foreign governments to negotiate the removal of barriers.
4. **Ensuring Security**: The bill mandates the implementation of security measures to prevent unauthorized access to U.S. AI systems by foreign adversaries, ensuring that American technology is safeguarded.
5. **Conducting Studies**: It calls for studies to assess the impact of U.S. AI technologies on global markets and security, alongside strategies for promoting the U.S. full AI stack internationally.
6. **Monitoring Export Success**: The Act includes provisions for tracking the success of the U.S. AI stack exports through periodic reports that evaluate the global deployment and usage of U.S. AI technologies.
Overall, the legislation reflects a strategic effort by the U.S. government to bolster its position in the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence on a global scale while addressing national security concerns associated with technology exports.
Possible Impacts
The "Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act" could affect people in several ways:
1. **Economic Opportunities and Job Creation**: By promoting the export of U.S. artificial intelligence technologies and standards, this legislation could lead to the growth of tech companies that develop and export AI systems. As these companies expand, they may create more jobs in areas such as software development, data analysis, and cybersecurity. This could enhance employment opportunities for individuals with relevant skills in the tech sector.
2. **Influence on Global Standards and Practices**: By establishing U.S. AI technologies as the "gold standard" worldwide, the legislation could shape how AI is developed and utilized globally. This may lead to the adoption of U.S. values and standards in AI governance, potentially affecting how AI impacts privacy, security, and ethical considerations in other countries. Individuals in various sectors may find their businesses and lives influenced by these overarching standards.
3. **Impact on National Security and Privacy**: The focus on preventing foreign adversaries from accessing U.S. AI technologies could enhance national security, which may lead to a perception of increased safety among citizens. However, it could also raise concerns about surveillance and privacy, as enhanced security measures might involve monitoring and restricting data flows. Individuals may experience changes in how their personal data is handled, especially if they are using AI technologies developed under this framework.
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6996 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6996
To facilitate the export of United States artificial intelligence
systems, computing hardware, and standards globally.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 2026
Mr. Fine introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To facilitate the export of United States artificial intelligence
systems, computing hardware, and standards globally.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Full AI Stack Export Promotion
Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The United States is in a race to achieve global
dominance in artificial intelligence, the winner of which will
reap broad economic and military benefits.
(2) Winning the AI race will usher in a new golden age of
human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national
security for the American people.
(3) Establishing United States AI as the gold standard for
AI worldwide and ensuring our allies build AI on United States
technology will help the United States win the AI race.
(4) Advanced AI compute is essential to the AI era,
enabling both economic dynamism and novel military
capabilities. Denying our foreign adversaries access to this
resource, then, is a matter of both geostrategic competition
and national security.
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.
It is the policy of the United States to--
(1) maintain United States dominance in the global
deployment of artificial intelligence;
(2) drive adoption of the U.S. full AI stack by allies and
partners;
(3) ensure global deployment of artificial intelligence is
based on United States-developed AI models, run by United
States cloud operators, run by data centers owned or operated
by United States firms, and functioning on United States-
designed artificial intelligence semiconductors;
(4) reduce the barriers faced by United States firms to
export the U.S. full AI stack;
(5) counter Chinese influence in international governance
bodies and ensure the global deployment of the full AI stack
strengthens United States values abroad;
(6) prevent illicit foreign adversary access to the U.S.
full AI stack deployed abroad;
(7) ensure the global deployment of AI strengthens the
qualitative military superiority of the United States and its
allies over foreign adversaries; and
(8) maintain a majority of globally deployed artificial
intelligence computing capacity and memory bandwidth in the
United States.
SEC. 4. INDUSTRY CONSORTIA FOR EXPORTING THE FULL AI STACK.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce shall establish and
carry out a program to identify and receive proposals that meet United
States-approved security requirements and standards from industry
consortia to facilitate the export of the U.S. full AI stack to allies
and partners. An industry consortia shall be eligible to submit
proposals under this subsection if the consortia is established only
for the purposes of participating in the program under this subsection.
(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the
program required by subsection (a) is established, the Secretary of
Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report on the status and results of the program.
SEC. 5. ELIMINATING FOREIGN BARRIERS TO THE U.S. FULL AI STACK.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in consultation with the
Secretary of Commerce, shall work to increase efforts to eliminate
foreign barriers to the export of the U.S. full AI stack, including--
(1) carrying out activities such as holding regular
industry listening sessions;
(2) establishing a hotline for industry to communications
barriers to exporting the U.S. full AI stack;
(3) elevating appropriate diplomatic channels; and
(4) carrying out other relevant actions.
(b) Diplomatic Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall establish a
diplomatic strategy outlining how the United States will address the
following:
(1) Easing United States AI companies' access to foreign
markets.
(2) Communicating to foreign countries the importance and
benefits of using the U.S. full AI stack to deploy artificial
intelligence.
(3) Leveraging the United States position in international
diplomatic and standard-setting bodies to advocate for
international AI governance approaches that promote innovation,
reflect American values, and counter authoritarian influence.
(c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the
strategy required by subsection (c) is completed, the Secretary of
Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the
strategy and an update on efforts to implement the strategy.
SEC. 6. STUDY ON GLOBAL AI DEPLOYMENT.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in coordination with the
Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, shall
conduct a study on the benefits and impact of the global deployment of
artificial intelligence.
(b) Matters To Be Addressed.--The study required by subsection (a)
shall address the following:
(1) The economic, diplomatic, and technological impact for
the United States and its allies from the global deployment of
the U.S. full AI stack.
(2) The impact on U.S. economic, diplomatic, and
technological leadership from the global deployment of the U.S.
full AI stack.
(3) How the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack
assists countries worldwide in achieving economic prosperity,
improving quality of life, expanding healthcare and educational
access for their citizens, and growing access to AI.
(4) The competitive position of the U.S. full AI stack
globally, compared to similar technology developed by foreign
countries.
(5) How the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack
enhances or affects United States and allied security,
including the qualitative military superiority of the United
States and its allies over foreign adversaries.
(6) Priority regions and countries for exporting the U.S.
full AI stack abroad.
(c) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State submit to
appropriate congressional committees a report on the results of
the study required by subsection (a).
(2) Form.--The report required by this subsection shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.
SEC. 7. SECURITY OF U.S. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SEMICONDUCTOR
PRODUCTS.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of
Energy, shall work with foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack to
institute security measures to prevent illicit or unauthorized foreign
adversary access to the U.S. full AI stack.
(b) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on
the development and implementation of the security measures
described in subsection (a).
(2) Form.--The report required by this subsection shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.
(c) Matters To Be Addressed.--The report required by subsection (b)
shall address the following:
(1) Plans of the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination
with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the
Secretary of Energy, to increase the speed and security of the
deployment of the U.S. full AI stack, such as creating
standardized security requirements for the U.S. full AI stack
deployed in third countries.
(2) Agreements reached with countries designed to promote
adoption of the U.S. full stack, including efforts to prevent
illicit or unauthorized foreign adversary access to the U.S.
full AI stack.
(3) The security measures that foreign purchasers of the
U.S. full AI stack must undertake to prevent transfer of the
U.S. full AI stack to foreign adversaries, including by remote
access.
(4) The presence of foreign adversary hardware and software
within the artificial intelligence supply chains of foreign
purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack, and supply-chain security
measures that foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack take
to eliminate that presence.
(5) Any other relevant information regarding the security
of the U.S. full AI stack.
SEC. 8. AI FULL STACK CONFIDENCE INITIATIVE.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of
State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the
public, including the industry consortia identified in section 4, shall
develop generally applicable practices, product offerings, or related
standards to help demonstrate confidence and reassurance to major
national purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack of the privacy,
confidentiality, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. full AI stack
for achieving the economic and security goals of major foreign
purchasers.
SEC. 9. AI FULL STACK EXPORT SUCCESS TRACKER.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and biannually thereafter for five years, the
Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Director of National
Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall complete an estimate of
the success of the export of the U.S. full AI stack (in this section
referred to as the ``AI export success tracker'').
(b) Contents.--The AI export success tracker shall contain the
following elements:
(1) An estimate of each country's installed artificial
intelligence, measured by total national computing capacity and
total national memory bandwidth.
(2) An estimate of what proportion of globally installed
artificial intelligence integrated circuits are designed by
United States firms.
(3) An estimate of what proportion of globally installed
artificial intelligence is installed in data centers owned or
operated by United States firms, with appropriate descriptive
breakdowns for each region or country.
(4) An estimate of the proportion of global artificial
intelligence model usage, measured by tokens processed, that
occurs for models owned or operated by United States firms,
with appropriate descriptive breakdowns for each region or
country.
(5) An estimate of the proportion of global cloud computing
services revenue and data-processing capacity is attributable
to cloud operators owned or operated by United States firms.
(c) Report.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Commerce shall submit to
the appropriate congressional committees and make available to
the public a report that contains the findings of each estimate
described under subsection (b).
(2) Form.--The report required by this subsection shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act--
(1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House
of Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs of the Senate;
(2) the term ``artificial intelligence integrated
circuits'' means any semiconductor device or integrated circuit
architecture that is marketed to perform artificial
intelligence model training, inference, or acceleration,
including but not limited to graphics processing units;
(3) the term ``foreign adversaries'' has the meaning given
the term ``covered nation'' in section 4872(f) of title 10,
United States Code;
(4) the term ``full AI stack'' means the compute and data
infrastructure that enable artificial intelligence research and
development, including high-performance computing resources,
data centers, the trained algorithms deployed on such
infrastructure, cloud services and infrastructure, and the
technical standards with which these facets operate;
(5) the term ``national computing capacity'' means the
aggregate maximum number of floating-point operations per
second (FLOP/s) or equivalent operations available within a
country from computing devices, processors, or systems
configured for large-scale artificial intelligence training or
inference. Computing capacity shall be calculated as the
maximum number of floating-point operations per second (FLOP/
s), normalized at a precision level determined by the Secretary
of Commerce;
(6) the term ``national memory bandwidth'' means the
aggregate maximum rate, expressed in bytes per second, at which
data can be transferred between processing elements and
directly attached memory resources in all computing devices,
processors, or systems that are configured for large-scale
artificial intelligence training or inference within a country.
National memory bandwidth shall be measured as the sum of the
sustained aggregate data transfer rates of such systems under
standard benchmark conditions;
(7) the term ``U.S. artificial intelligence semiconductor
products'' means any semiconductor device or integrated circuit
architecture for which design activities were conducted in the
United States and that is marketed to perform artificial
intelligence model training, inference, or acceleration,
including but not limited to graphics processing units;
(8) the term ``U.S. full AI stack'' means those parts of
the full AI stack with respect to which entities whose ultimate
parent company is organized or headquartered in the United
States are key developers, manufacturers, or providers across
the relevant parts of the supply chain; and
(9) the term ``token'' means a basic unit of text, code, or
other data processed by an artificial intelligence model,
typically corresponding to a word, part of a word, or symbol,
used for the purpose of measuring the volume of model input or
output.
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