119-sres490

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 490 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
S. RES. 490

 Affirming the critical importance of preserving the United States' 
 advantage in artificial intelligence and ensuring that the United 
 States achieves and maintains artificial intelligence dominance.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 November 6, 2025

 Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. McCormick, and Ms. Klobuchar) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
 on Foreign Relations

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 RESOLUTION

 Affirming the critical importance of preserving the United States' 
 advantage in artificial intelligence and ensuring that the United 
 States achieves and maintains artificial intelligence dominance.

Whereas artificial intelligence

    (AI) will be one of the defining technologies of 
 the 21st century;
Whereas preserving American dominance in AI will allow the United States to hold 
 an advantage in military capabilities, economic might, scientific 
 achievement, and geopolitical influence, all of which will enable the 
 United States to shape the world's future on a foundation of democratic 
 values;
Whereas AI will unlock untold opportunities in nearly every sector in the global 
 economy, from healthcare to manufacturing, defense, energy, and finance;
Whereas AI is also a national security imperative, with the potential to reshape 
 military strategies, cybersecurity, and intelligence operations, 
 requiring both the United States Government and the private sector to 
 collaborate in preserving the technological superiority of the United 
 States;
Whereas the United States has historically led the world in AI research and 
 development, fostering a dynamic ecosystem of cutting-edge technologies 
 driven by the collaboration between government, academia, and the 
 private sector;
Whereas the global competition for AI supremacy is intensifying, with the 
 Government of the People's Republic of China making substantial 
 investments in AI research, development, and deployment with the stated 
 goal of becoming the world leader in AI by 2030 and leveraging state-
 backed policies to accelerate AI adoption across various domains;
Whereas the White House AI Action Plan notes that ``just like we won the space 
 race, it is imperative that the United States win this race'' and 
 ``achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global 
 technological dominance'';
Whereas AI dominance will be decided by relative strength across multiple 
 pillars, including talent, energy, and compute, with the United States 
 maintaining a clear lead in compute while China's investments have 
 yielded advantages in energy and talent;
Whereas United States chipmakers, working with manufacturers in Taiwan, produce 
 millions of United States-designed AI chips per year, while Chinese 
 chipmakers are projected to produce no more than 200,000 advanced chips 
 this year, according to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutinick, each of 
 which is far less powerful than AI chips designed in the United States;
Whereas United States companies produce 43 to 120 times more computing power 
 than their Chinese equivalent, taking into account both the number and 
 quality of United States-made chips, and United States chips are in 
 effect the only true option for training advanced AI systems such that 
 even leading Chinese firms use United States-produced chips;
Whereas China--despite more than a decade of major Chinese indigenization 
 efforts and more than $200,000,000,000 in investments since 2014--has 
 struggled to produce advanced AI chips and therefore has to rely on 
 smuggling or legal exports of advanced chips from the United States;
Whereas export controls on advanced chips, chip design software, tools, and 
 manufacturing equipment have denied the Government of the People's 
 Republic of China the opportunity to develop domestic chipmaking 
 capabilities and capture significant market share of global AI 
 infrastructure;
Whereas it is essential that the United States remain the world's hub for AI 
 development, training, inference, and innovation; and
Whereas preserving the United States lead in AI will require ensuring United 
 States AI companies can access the energy, compute, and talent they 
 require: Now, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That the Senate--

    (1) affirms that the preservation of the United States' 
 primacy in artificial intelligence is a national imperative 
 that is critical to maintaining our global leadership, economic 
 prosperity, and national security;

    (2) commends the White House AI Action Plan, including its 
 recognition that ``advanced AI compute is essential to the AI 
 era, enabling both economic dynamism and novel military 
 capabilities'' and that ``denying our foreign adversaries 
 access to this resource, then, is a matter of both geostrategic 
 competition and national security'';

    (3) applauds United States Government efforts to deny the 
 Government of the People's Republic of China access to advanced 
 chips and chipmaking equipment, and affirms the importance of 
 continuing these efforts;

    (4) recognizes that efforts of the Government of the 
 People's Republic China to close the AI gap and leap ahead of 
 the United States in developing frontier AI models, and deploy 
 Chinese AI models for the world to use and build on, present a 
 clear and imminent threat to the United States, and that 
 China's self-acknowledged inability to make and access 
 computing power is the main impediment to its progress;

    (5) emphasizes that the world's most powerful 
 supercomputers and next generation of AI models must be built 
 in the United States and by United States companies;

    (6) calls on the United States Government to ensure that 
 United States companies maintain priority access to the 
 cutting-edge AI chips they require to build frontier AI models 
 and are not deprioritized in favor of buyers in China or other 
 arms-embargoed countries;

    (7) emphasizes the importance of exporting the full United 
 States AI stack--which includes United States AI chips, cloud 
 infrastructure, and models--to allies and partners, while 
 restricting access to the most sophisticated chips and models 
 that United States adversaries may seek to use against the 
 United States, whether by enforcing export controls and 
 countering illegal chip diversion or by strategically limiting 
 legal exports of advanced chips to adversary countries; and

    (8) asserts the need to prioritize investments in the 
 energy, telecommunications, and physical infrastructure 
 necessary to enable widespread adoption of AI technology.
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