AWARE Act of 2024

The AWARE Act of 2024 requires the U.S. Department of Defense to create a detailed ledger tracking all military artificial intelligence systems (including weapons, targeting, and decision support systems) within three years. It mandates an annual risk assessment process evaluating dependability, cybersecurity, privacy, bias, bias toward conflict escalation, deployment scale, and civilian harm risks for each system in the ledger. The Department must update the ledger regularly, annotate foreign sharing of systems that increase risk, and submit annual public reports to Congress detailing the ledger, risk findings, and foreign use annotations. The bill does not create new restrictions but requires transparency in how the military uses AI in combat-related applications.