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May 27, 2026

AI and Adolescent Mental Health

AI chatbots are becoming a go-to source of mental health support for young people. RAND’s Ryan McBain examines both the promise and the risks of this growing trend.
Expert Insights

May 4, 2026

Contingency Frameworks for Future U.S.-China Cooperation on AI Assurance and Security: Preserving Strategic Optionality

The author aims to inform artificial intelligence contingency planning under the premise that preserving strategic optionality for future U.S.-China engagement serves U.S. interests. He proposes five potential lines of effort for doing so.
Expert Insights

May 4, 2026

Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches

Open-weight AI models (OWMs) introduce distinct risk factors for which existing evaluation practices, largely designed for closed-weight model deployment, fail to account. The authors propose proportional evaluation approaches for OWMs.
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May 1, 2026

State Tele-Buprenorphine Prescribing Policies by Medical Professional Type

Systematic legal mapping of all 50 states finds wide variation in tele-buprenorphine policy support for Medicaid enrollees, with six states prohibiting virtual OUD care and NPs and PAs facing greater barriers than physicians.
Research Summary

Apr 29, 2026

How Much More Power Can the U.S. Grid Provide for AI? Projections and Policy Implications for 2030

A team of RAND researchers estimated how much additional power capacity the United States is likely to have by 2030 by translating planned electricity supply resources into a common measure of reliable capacity. This brief summarizes the results.
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Apr 29, 2026

Exploring Instability Risks in the U.S.-China AI Rivalry: Breakwater Game Overview and Initial Observations

This paper presents an overview and observations on Breakwater, a game that explores instability risks in the U.S.-China rivalry and race to artificial general intelligence.
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Apr 28, 2026

Evaluating Large Language Models' Abilities to Process and Understand Technical Policy Reports

The authors detail their development of a specialized benchmark for evaluating large language models' abilities to process and understand technical policy reports, thus addressing a gap in existing domain-specific evaluation.
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Apr 27, 2026

Agricultural Security Considerations for the U.S. Corn Belt: Reviewing Key Threats and Mitigation Strategies for Bioresiliency

The authors examine key threat categories to the agricultural industries of the U.S. Corn Belt and identify proactive and integrated approaches to safeguarding U.S. crop production against emerging biological, environmental, and societal risks.
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Apr 27, 2026

The AGI Rideout Strategy for Reducing Strategic Risk and Promoting Stability in the Transition to Artificial General Intelligence

The authors describe an artificial general intelligence (AGI) Rideout strategy to avoid geopolitical risks in the race toward and transition to AGI. The strategy prioritizes deterring conflicts and increasing U.S. tech infrastructure resilience.
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Apr 22, 2026

Simpler Is Better for Autograders: Toward Cost-Effective LLM Evaluations for Open-Ended Tasks

A simple rubric-based autograder outperformed more-complex large language model grading methods across benchmarks, often matching or beating nonexpert human graders while cutting down evaluation time and cost.
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Apr 20, 2026

A Formal Model of How Artificial Intelligence Erodes Human Agency

In this report, the authors draw on social choice theory to develop a formal model of how AI erodes collective human agency; they also model decisionmaking to identify the point beyond which this erosion could become irreversible.
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Apr 16, 2026

AI Implications for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Policy and Programs: A Strategic Analytic Research Agenda

Artificial intelligence is reshaping chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear deterrence, posing new risks and opportunities. This paper outlines a roadmap to guide research and policy on challenges amid rising global technological rivalry.

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Simpler Is Better for Autograders: Toward Cost-Effective LLM Evaluations for Open-Ended Tasks

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Disentangle the Tax Code with a New RAND Tool

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AI and Adolescent Mental Health

Contingency Frameworks for Future U.S.-China Cooperation on AI Assurance and Security: Preserving Strategic Optionality

Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches

State Tele-Buprenorphine Prescribing Policies by Medical Professional Type

How Much More Power Can the U.S. Grid Provide for AI? Projections and Policy Implications for 2030

Exploring Instability Risks in the U.S.-China AI Rivalry: Breakwater Game Overview and Initial Observations

Evaluating Large Language Models' Abilities to Process and Understand Technical Policy Reports

Agricultural Security Considerations for the U.S. Corn Belt: Reviewing Key Threats and Mitigation Strategies for Bioresiliency

The AGI Rideout Strategy for Reducing Strategic Risk and Promoting Stability in the Transition to Artificial General Intelligence

Simpler Is Better for Autograders: Toward Cost-Effective LLM Evaluations for Open-Ended Tasks

A Formal Model of How Artificial Intelligence Erodes Human Agency

AI Implications for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Policy and Programs: A Strategic Analytic Research Agenda

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