Nonprofit global policy think tank. Active in AI policy, security studies, and technology assessment.
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| Title | PublicationType | Authors | Url | PublishedDate | IsFlagship | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building a US National Strategy for the AI Era | report | Michael J. Mazarr, Anca Agachi | rand.org | 2025-11 | — | |
| Evaluating Global Technical Options for Countering a Rogue AI | report | Michael J. D. Vermeer | rand.org | 2025-11 | — | |
| Governance Approaches to Securing Frontier AI | report | Ian Mitch, Matthew Malone, Karen Schwindt, Gregory Smith, Wesley Hurd, Henry Bradley, James Gimbi | rand.org | 2025-10 | — | |
| The Artificial General Intelligence Race and International Security | report | Jim Mitre, Michael C. Horowitz, Natalia Henry, Emma Borden, Joel B. Predd | rand.org | 2025-09 | ✓ | |
| Artificial Intelligence and the Social Contract | report | — | rand.org | 2025-08 | — | |
| Full Stack: China's Evolving Industrial Policy for AI | report | Kyle Chan, Gregory Smith, Jimmy Goodrich, Gerard DiPippo, Konstantin Pilz | rand.org | 2025-06 | — | |
| Understanding the AI Diffusion Framework | report | Lennart Heim | rand.org | 2025-01 | — | |
| Steps Toward AI Governance: Insights from 2024 EqualAI Summit | report | — | rand.org | 2025 | — | |
| Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response for AI Loss of Control Incidents | report | Elika Somani, Anjay Friedman, Henry Wu, Marianne Lu | rand.org | 2025 | — | |
| AI, Cybersecurity, and National Security: The Fierce Urgency of Now | report | — | rand.org | 2025 | — | |
| On the Extinction Risk from Artificial Intelligence | report | Michael J. D. Vermeer, Emily Lathrop, Alvin Moon | rand.org | 2025 | — | |
| Bridging the AI Governance Gap: US and China's Divergent Approaches | report | Oliver Guest, Kevin Wei | rand.org | 2024-12 | — | |
| Securing AI Model Weights: Preventing Theft and Misuse of Frontier Models | report | Sella Nevo, Dan Lahav, Ajay Karpur, Yogev Bar-On, Henry Alexander Bradley, Jeff Alstott | rand.org | 2024-05 | ✓ | |
| Generative AI Threats to Information Integrity | report | Todd C. Helmus, Bilva Chandra | rand.org | 2024-04 | — | |
| Strategic Competition in the Age of AI | report | — | rand.org | 2024 | ✓ | |
| AI and the Future of Work | report | Tobias Sytsma, Melanie Zaber, Rachel Slama | rand.org | 2024 | — | |
| Hardware-Enabled Governance Mechanisms | report | Tim Fist, Lennart Heim | rand.org | 2024 | ✓ | |
| AI Hardware Governance Workshop Report | report | RAND Corporation | rand.org | 2024 | — | |
| Historical Analogues That Can Inform AI Governance | report | Michael J. D. Vermeer | rand.org | 2024 | ✓ | |
| The Race to AGI: Geopolitical Implications | report | RAND Corporation | rand.org | 2024 | — | |
| AGI and the Rise and Fall of Nations | report | RAND Corporation | rand.org | 2024 | — | |
| AGI's Five Hard National Security Problems | report | — | rand.org | 2024 | ✓ | |
| The Operational Risks of AI in Large-Scale Biological Attacks: Results of a Red-Team Study | report | Christopher A. Mouton, Caleb Lucas, Ella Guest | rand.org | 2024 | ✓ | |
| Military Applications of AI: Ethical Concerns in an Uncertain World | report | Forrest E. Morgan, Benjamin Boudreaux, Andrew J. Lohn, Mark Ashby, Christian Curriden, Kelly Klima, Derek Grossman | rand.org | 2020 | ✓ | |
| How Might Artificial Intelligence Affect the Risk of Nuclear War? | paper | Edward Geist, Andrew J. Lohn | rand.org | 2018-04 | ✓ |
Divisions
12AI policy research covering governance, regulation, and societal impacts of AI. Part of RAND's broader technology policy portfolio.
'Day After AGI' exercises. US-China AI competition, nuclear stability, strategic instability research.
RAND's newest division. Houses CAST, Geopolitics of AGI, China Research, Forecasting Initiative. VP: Matan Chorev (March 2026). Previously led by Jim Mitre.
National security, defense strategy, and geopolitics research. One of RAND's founding focus areas.
Research for OSD, Joint Staff, Unified Combatant Commands, defense agencies, USMC, Navy.
Formerly TASP. Focus: frontier AI policy, governance, biosecurity, cybersecurity. Includes fellows program.
Distinguished Tang Chair director (Dec 2024). China AI industrial policy, tech competition, chip exports.
Crowdsourced forecasts including superforecasters on AI timelines and geopolitical AI developments.
FFRDC for OSD, Joint Staff, and defense agencies.
Founded 1946 — the only Air Force FFRDC. RAND's original mission.
Research on emerging technologies, cybersecurity, space, and applied science policy.
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