Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies—including machine learning, generative AI, and facial recognition technologies—are demonstrating many potential benefits across a variety of sectors of the U.S. economy. At the same time, the rapid innovation and proliferation of AI tools have generated concern over their potential disruptive effects, such as generation and dissemination of misinformation, potential shifts in jobs and employment opportunities, and social, ethical, and security risks. Previous Congresses considered a variety of policies and legislation associated with AI technologies and their applications. With interest in AI remaining high, Members of the 119th Congress may continue to engage in AI policymaking. To assist Congress, CRS has produced a range of written and audiovisual products. Below is a selection of CRS products on AI-related policy and legal issues, legislation, and executive branch actions.
Selected AI CRS Products
AI Overview
CRS Report R48262, Artificial Intelligence: CRS Experts and Points of Contact
CRS Video WVB00685, Science and Technology Q&A: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (or, in podcast form, CRS Report WPD00096, Science and Technology Q&A: Regulating Artificial Intelligence)
CRS Video WVB00650, Current Issues in Artificial Intelligence
CRS Video WVB00615, Artificial Intelligence: Recent Advances and Issues for Congress
CRS Report R47644, Artificial Intelligence: Overview, Recent Advances, and Considerations for the 118th Congress
CRS Report WPD00050, CRS Science and Technology Podcast: Artificial Intelligence
CRS Report R46795, Artificial Intelligence: Background, Selected Issues, and Policy Considerations
Generative AI
CRS Legal Sidebar LSB11097, Section 230 Immunity and Generative Artificial Intelligence
CRS Legal Sidebar LSB10922, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law
CRS In Focus IF12426, Generative Artificial Intelligence: Overview, Issues, and Questions for Congress
CRS Report R47569, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Data Privacy: A Primer
CRS Video WVB00580, Copyright Law and Generative Artificial Intelligence
CRS Video WVB00554, Science and Technology Q&A: Generative AI and Data Privacy
AI Executive Order 14110 (rescinded January 20, 2025)
The following products pertain to Executive Order (E.O.) 14110, "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence," which was rescinded on January 20, 2025, by E.O. 14148, "Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions." The original versions of the products below also predate and do not necessarily address E.O. 14179, "Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence," signed January 23, 2025.
CRS Report R47843, Highlights of the 2023 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence for Congress
CRS Insight IN12308, The AI Executive Order and Considerations for Federal Privacy Policy
CRS Insight IN12289, Law Enforcement Use of Artificial Intelligence and Directives in the 2023 Executive Order
CRS Insight IN12286, The AI Executive Order and Its Potential Implications for DOD
AI and Defense
See also AI E.O. 14110 (rescinded January 20, 2025)
CRS Report R47599, AUKUS Pillar 2 (Advanced Capabilities): Background and Issues for Congress
CRS Report R46458, Emerging Military Technologies: Background and Issues for Congress
CRS In Focus IF11105, Defense Primer: Emerging Technologies
CRS Report R47188, Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Roles, Missions, and Future Concepts
AI and Elections
CRS Insight IN12222, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Campaign Finance Policy: Recent Developments
CRS In Focus IF12468, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Federal Election Campaigns: Legal Background and Constitutional Considerations for Legislation
AI and Finance
CRS Video WVB00681, Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services
CRS Report R47997, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Financial Services
CRS In Focus IF12399, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in Consumer Lending
AI and Right of Publicity
CRS Video WVB00696, The Right of Publicity and Artificial Intelligence
CRS Legal Sidebar LSB11052, Artificial Intelligence Prompts Renewed Consideration of a Federal Right of Publicity
Facial Recognition
CRS Report R47541, Immigration: The U.S. Entry-Exit System
CRS In Focus IF11333, Deep Fakes and National Security
CRS Video WVB00328, Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Technology
CRS Report R46586, Federal Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Technology
CRS Report R46541, Facial Recognition Technology and Law Enforcement: Select Constitutional Considerations
AI and Other Sectors
CRS Report R48319, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health Care
CRS In Focus IF12762, The Macroeconomic Effects of Artificial Intelligence
CRS Legal Sidebar LSB11251, Artificial Intelligence and Patent Law
CRS In Focus IF11783, Biometric Technologies and Global Security
CRS Video WVB00708, Disruptive Technology Series: Internet Policy in the Artificial Intelligence Era
CRS Video WVB00697, Professional Ethics: Rules of Conduct and Artificial Intelligence
CRS Report R47849, Artificial Intelligence in the Biological Sciences: Uses, Safety, Security, and Oversight
CRS Video WVB00642, Science and Technology Q&A: Artificial Intelligence in the Biological Sciences
CRS In Focus IF12497, Semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence