Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
The SCALE Act requires the Secretary of Commerce, working with the Director of National Intelligence, to establish a rolling annual system for controlling exports of advanced artificial intelligence chips to countries considered threats to U.S. national security, specifically China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and certain other nations. The bill directs the Commerce Department to develop performance metrics measuring the AI hardware capabilities of adversary nations and to set annual export limits ensuring that hostile countries cannot accumulate chip technology that approaches American capabilities. Within 365 days of the law's enactment, and then annually, the government must assess adversary AI hardware stocks and implement license denial policies for exports that would allow foreign entities to access chips exceeding specified performance thresholds or that would cause total adversary AI hardware to exceed five percent of what the United States possesses. Companies seeking to export AI chips under this framework must certify they are not diverting U.S. production capacity, that foreign shipments do not exceed fifty percent of comparable U.S. shipments, that items serve only civilian purposes, and that independent testing confirms the chips' technical specifications.
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