Nov 20, 2025

Policy Lab: The Geopolitics of AGI

RAND's Jim Mitre and Joel Predd discuss how advanced AI, including artificial general intelligence, might reshape global politics and security.

Nov 17, 2025

Building a U.S. National Strategy for the Artificial Intelligence Era: Drawing Lessons from Six Archetypal Strategies

The authors seek to advance the understanding of an artificial intelligence (AI) national strategy by identifying challenges to AI strategy development, ways to advance U.S. strategic thinking, and no-regret steps for a comprehensive strategy.

Nov 13, 2025

Facing the Artificial Intelligence–Cyber Nexus: A Structured Approach to Government Decisionmaking to Address Emerging Artificial Intelligence Capabilities for Cyber Attacks

RAND researchers aim to inform policymakers on how to prepare for the emergence of increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems that can plan and execute offensive cyberspace operations.

Nov 12, 2025

Evaluating Select Global Technical Options for Countering a Rogue AI

This paper presents a preliminary examination of a set of technical options for responding to the emergence of a global rogue artificial intelligence (AI) that poses an imminent and catastrophic threat to human well-being or government continuity.

Nov 7, 2025

One in Eight Adolescents and Young Adults Use AI Chatbots for Mental Health Advice

About 1 in 8 U.S. adolescents and young adults use AI chatbots for mental health advice, with the behavior most common among those aged 18 to 21.

Nov 6, 2025

U.S. Adults’ Perceptions of Six Possible Global Threats and Hazards

This report presents U.S. adults’ perceptions of risks of six possible global catastrophes: harms from artificial intelligence, asteroids and comets hitting Earth, severe changes to Earth’s climate, nuclear war, severe pandemics, and supervolcanoes.

Oct 28, 2025

China: An Emerging Software Power

China's early success in global AI competition, bolstered by continued massive state investment and other advantages, could help it extend its dominance in international markets for manufactured goods to the software realm.

Oct 24, 2025

AI Is Making Jobs, Not Taking Them

Far from producing mass layoffs, AI appears to be—at least so far—increasing employment. While some businesses have decreased employment by using AI to replace tasks done by workers, a larger share has reported increases in employment related to AI adoption.

Oct 22, 2025

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Robot Insurgency Scenario: After-Action Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises

This report summarizes the results of four runs of the Robot Insurgency scenario, an exercise conducted to understand how the United States should respond to and prepare for potential artificial intelligence developments.

Oct 21, 2025

The Republic of Korea Is a Key Partner for the United States in Artificial Intelligence Competition with China

This paper provides an overview of how to enhance U.S. competitiveness vis-à-vis China through expanded cooperation on artificial intelligence with the Republic of Korea.

Oct 20, 2025

Insights from the Development and Play of Tsunami

This paper describes the game Tsunami, which explores the impact of the development and deployment of artificial general intelligence on state-state relationships and geopolitics and provides insights on national leaders’ decisionmaking.

Oct 15, 2025

Majority of Americans See U.S. Leadership in AI as Crucial, Survey Finds

In this brief report, RAND researchers summarize newly released survey results that suggest that Americans care strongly about the United States maintaining its competitive edge over China in the race to develop artificial intelligence.