Workforce for AI Trust Act (H.R.9334) — amending the National AI Initiative Act to create interdisciplinary fellowships covering the social sciences and humanities; ordered reported 35 to 0
A House bill amending the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 to create interdisciplinary AI fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across disciplines including the social sciences and humanities. The research covered is the trustworthy design, development, training, deployment, evaluation and understanding of AI. The committee ordered it reported, amended, 35 to 0 on 2026-06-25.
Bill overview (primary data)
- Bill numberH.R. 9334
- TypeHouse Bill
- Congress119th Congress
- Latest actionOrdered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 35 - 0.（2026-06-25）
Key points
- Amends the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 to create interdisciplinary AI fellowships.
- Recipients are graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across disciplines including the social sciences and humanities.
- Graduate awards cover tuition, education-related fees and stipends for up to three academic years; postdoctoral awards cover salaries, benefits, relocation, conference travel and research expenses for up to three years.
- Recipients must be citizens, nationals or lawful permanent residents of the United States.
- The committee ordered it reported in the nature of a substitute, amended, 35 to 0 on 2026-06-25.
- The new fellowship covers fields including the social sciences and humanities, putting the crossing of disciplines in the requirement.
1Amending the AI statute itself
The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 sets the frame for federal AI policy, and many other bills borrow their definition of AI from it. This bill sits on the side that amends that statute itself.
Two changes: a definition of National Laboratory, and a new fellowship provision. Because the change lands in a framing statute, its effect can reach other arrangements that point back to it.
2The social sciences and the humanities are named
The fellowships reach graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across disciplines, including social science disciplines and the humanities. Research support for AI gravitates toward computer science; here crossing disciplines is written into the requirement.
The subject is the trustworthy design, development, training, deployment, evaluation and understanding of AI. What trust covers does not close within technology. Who uses a system, where it is accepted and what goes wrong belong to disciplines that look at the social side. Naming those fields is a decision to bring them inside the funding.
3Reported with none against
On 2026-06-25 the committee ordered the bill reported in the nature of a substitute, amended, by 35 to 0. It cleared committee close to unanimously.
Of the 114 AI-related bills this site holds as of 2026-09-01, among the 50 not yet covered, 12 amend an existing statute. Two of those amend the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020, this bill among them. Recipients must be citizens, nationals or lawful permanent residents of the United States.
4Writing the crossing of disciplines into the requirement
Research support for AI tends to centre on computer science. The fellowship this bill creates puts crossing disciplines on the requirement side.
The subject of research is the design, development, training, deployment, evaluation and understanding of trustworthy AI. Who uses it and how, where it is accepted and what goes wrong belong to disciplines that look at the social side. The committee ordered it reported, as amended in the nature of a substitute, on 25 June 2026 by 35 to 0.
Why it matters
Trustworthy AI is not a subject that performance alone settles. Bringing into funding the disciplines that study who uses a system and where it is accepted is a decision about how wide the research base should run. Because it amends a framing statute, enactment would reach the arrangements that point back to it.
FAQ
Which statute does it amend?
Why the social sciences and humanities?
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Sources (primary)
Source: Congress.gov (Library of Congress; U.S. legislative materials, public domain). Links go to the official site.
- Congress.gov (bill page, original)
- H.R. 9334（119th Congress）