>In the 2021 Appropriations Act, Congress directed the Federal Trade Commission to study and report on whether and how artificial intelligence (AI) “may be used to identify, remove, or take any other appropriate action necessary to address” a wide variety of specified “online harms.”

>We assume that Congress is less concerned with whether a given tool fits within a definition of AI than whether it uses computational technology to address a listed harm. In other words, what matters more is output and impact. Thus, some tools mentioned herein are not necessarily AI-powered. Similarly, and when appropriate, we may use terms such as automated detection tool or automated decision system, which may or may not involve actual or claimed use of AI.

Quite hilarious really!