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How Artificial Intelligence Could Increase the Risk of Nuclear War

Advances in AI have provoked a new kind of arms race among nuclear powers. This technology could challenge the basic rules of nuclear deterrence and lead to catastrophic miscalculations.

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How the Child-Welfare System Could Protect More Kids and Save Billions of Dollars

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Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Can Deliver Routine Care to Affected People Following Natural Disasters

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Sustaining Pennsylvania's State System Universities

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Europe's Great Challenge: Integrating Syrian Refugees

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The Role of Deterrence in U.S. Defense Policy

Deterrence is about much more than merely threatening an adversary. It must be conceived primarily as an effort to shape the thinking of a potential aggressor. Any strategy to prevent aggression must begin with an assessment of the potential aggressor's interests, motives, and imperatives.
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Defeating the ISIS Nostalgia Narrative

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How to Counter Russian Social Media Influence in Eastern Europe

Russia uses social media in nearby states to sow dissent against neighboring governments and NATO. Options for countering the Kremlin's campaign include tracking and blocking propaganda more quickly and offering alternative content to help displace the Russian narrative.

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Our study suggests that direct-to-consumer telemedicine is a new way to deliver routine health care to people in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster, although it does require that certain infrastructure like cellular service and Wi-Fi remain intact.
Lori Uscher-Pines

Senior Policy Researcher
Source: RAND News Release
The connection between nuclear war and artificial intelligence is not new, in fact the two have an intertwined history. Much of the early development of AI was done in support of military efforts or with military objectives in mind.
Edward Geist

Associate Policy Researcher
Source: RAND News Release
When a company says 'We've driven this many miles in simulation,' I think, 'Well, I'm glad you've got a simulator.' Real-world miles still really, really matter. That's where, literally, the rubber meets the road and there's no substitute for it.
Nidhi Kalra

Director, San Francisco Bay Area Office
Source: The Verge
As horrific as [the recent chlorine] attack was for the people of Syria, its global implications also require attention and action. This is no longer an aberration, it is the latest in a pattern of attacks by not only Syria, but North Korea, Russia, and ISIS.
Natasha Lander

Senior Policy Analyst
Source: RealClearDefense
Have the very widespread democratic aspirations of people around the world declined? I suspect not, but I am concerned that the structures and processes that enable fulfillment of those aspirations may be eroding and that there is a lack of international leadership in countering that erosion.
Laurel E. Miller

Senior Political Scientist
Source: Foreign Policy

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How the Child-Welfare System Could Protect More Kids and Save Billions of Dollars

Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Can Deliver Routine Care to Affected People Following Natural Disasters

Could U.S. Road Deaths Reach Zero by 2050?

Sustaining Pennsylvania's State System Universities

Europe's Great Challenge: Integrating Syrian Refugees

The Role of Deterrence in U.S. Defense Policy

Defeating the ISIS Nostalgia Narrative

Staying Cool—as the Globe Warms

How to Counter Russian Social Media Influence in Eastern Europe

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