Artificial Intelligence Risk Evaluation Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 2938 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2938 To require the Secretary of Energy to establish the Advanced Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Program, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 29, 2025 Mr. Hawley (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Secretary of Energy to establish the Advanced Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Program, and for other purposes. 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 ``Artificial Intelligence Risk Evaluation Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS; PURPOSES. (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence capabilities present both opportunities and significant risks to national security, public safety, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, and healthy labor and other markets, and that, as artificial intelligence advances toward human-level capabilities in virtually all domains, the United States must establish a secure testing and evaluation program to generate data-driven options for managing emerging risks. (b) Purposes.--The purposes of the program established under this Act are to provide Congress with the empirical data, lessons, and insights necessary for Federal oversight of artificial intelligence to ensure that regulatory decisions are made on the basis of empirical testing, and to enable Congress to safeguard American citizens. SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Advanced artificial intelligence system.-- (A) In general.--Sub