To require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish task forces to facilitate and inform the development of technical standards and guidelines relating to the identification of content created by generative artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8893 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8893 To require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish task forces to facilitate and inform the development of technical standards and guidelines relating to the identification of content created by generative artificial intelligence, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 19, 2026 Mrs. Foushee (for herself, Mr. Moylan, Mr. Beyer, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish task forces to facilitate and inform the development of technical standards and guidelines relating to the identification of content created by generative artificial intelligence, 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 ``Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act''. SEC. 2. GUIDELINES TO FACILITATE DISTINGUISHING CONTENT GENERATED BY GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. (a) Task Forces for Development of Guidelines and Promoting Standards.-- (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall establish task forces to accomplish the following goals: (A) Supporting the development of technical standards and guidelines to provide content provenance metadata, watermarking, digital fingerprinting for audio or visual content, and other technical measures that the task forces determine significant. To the extent technically feasible, such task forces shoul