United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act
This bill requires the Department of State to establish the United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center to leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of institutions of higher education and private sector entities in the United States and Israel to develop more robust research and development cooperation in specified areas (e.g., machine learning, object detection, and speech recognition).
To establish the United States-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center to 
 improve artificial intelligence research and development cooperation.

    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 ``United States-Israel Artificial 
Intelligence Center Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTER.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Commerce, the Director of the National Science Foundation, 
and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, shall establish the 
United States-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center (referred to in 
this section as the ``Center'') in the United States.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the Center shall be to leverage the 
experience, knowledge, and expertise of institutions of higher 
education and private sector entities in the United States and Israel 
to develop more robust research and development cooperation in the 
areas of--
            (1) machine learning;
            (2) image classification;
            (3) object detection;
            (4) speech recognition;
            (5) natural language processing;
            (6) data labeling;
            (7) computer vision; and
            (8) model explainability and interpretability.
    (c) Artificial Intelligence Principles.--In carrying out the 
purposes set forth in subsection (b), the Center shall adhere to the 
principles for the use of artificial intelligence in the Federal 
Government set forth in section 3 of Executive Order 13960 (85 Fed. 
Reg. 78939).
    (d) International Partnerships.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of State and the heads of 
        other relevant Federal agencies, subject to the availability of 
        appropriations, may enter into cooperative agreements 
        supporting and enhancing dialogue and planning involving 
        international partnerships between the Department of State or 
        such agencies and the Government of Israel and its ministries, 
        offices, and institutions.
            (2) Federal share.--Not more than 50 percent of the costs 
        of implementing the agreements entered into pursuant to 
        paragraph (1) may be paid by the United States Government.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated for the Center $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2022 through 2026.
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United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act
A bill to establish the United States-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center to improve artificial intelligence research and development cooperation.
United States–Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act
Sen. Rubio, Marco