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Is AI Threatening Health Care Jobs? Or Just Changing Them?
Are artificial intelligence (AI)–based chatbots coming for your health care job? As with any new technology, fears over potential unintended consequences of AI abound, but haven't been realized—for now.
Sep 16, 2024

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Equity and Social Policy: Q&A with Jessica Welburn Paige
Jessica Welburn Paige, a behavioral and social scientist, focuses on questions of race and inequality. In this interview, she discusses how AI programs being used to monitor students for suicide risk could compromise student privacy and harm vulnerable students.
Sep 3, 2024
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Addressing the National Security Risks of Bulk Data in the Age of AI 
There is an urgent need for a more nuanced and empirically grounded approach to data regulation, one that recognizes how seemingly innocuous data points can, when amassed in large quantities, pose substantial risks to national security.
Aug 23, 2024
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TikTok Is a Threat to National Security, but Not for the Reason You Think
Most videos that Americans post on social media are harmless at face value, but the 34 million videos posted daily on TikTok become ideal training material for generative AI models. These models will be able to create astonishingly convincing deepfakes that could be used in influence operations.
Aug 14, 2024
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CrowdStrike Is Too Big to Fail
The CrowdStrike outage underscores that the global economy and U.S. national security are vulnerable to attack. Managing risks will require intragovernmental and perhaps international coordination.
Jul 22, 2024
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Rethinking Priorities in Quantum Computing
The emergence of quantum computing suggests limitless possibilities in chemistry, material science, simulations to predict outcomes, and other areas. But even if sufficiently good quantum hardware is built, are there algorithms that can leverage the laws of quantum mechanics to solve difficult problems?
Jul 12, 2024
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Culturally Appropriate Care in the Age of AI
Generative AI could transform social care, alongside wider technological developments, such as sensor technologies that can support people who need care. What does this mean for culturally sensitive care?
May 24, 2024
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Digital Security Increasingly Relies on AI. But That Tech Isn't as Secure as We Think
In the digital age, trade-offs—like displaying our faces and fingerprints—are all but required to function in society. But the technology charged with securing our information and protecting against theft, fraud, and other potential harms doesn't always work.
Apr 23, 2024
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Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography
A steady stream of advances in quantum computing technology is increasing the urgency to standardize and implement algorithms that are resistant to both present-day computing and on-the-horizon quantum computing. What can we do with post-quantum cryptography now to prepare for the future?
Apr 22, 2024
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Your Body, but Not Your Data
The public needs rigorous and thorough health research, but individual patients should have rights over their medical information. Today they have very little.
Mar 7, 2024
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The Paradox of LGB+ Employment Status According to the UK Census
Data from the 2021 Census of England and Wales show that gay and lesbian adults are more likely to be employed than heterosexual adults—but also that they are more likely to be unemployed than heterosexual adults. What caused this paradox? And how can these statistics be better understood?
Feb 21, 2024
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Policymaking Needs to Get Ahead of Artificial Intelligence
President Biden's executive order on AI is a key step toward a regulatory regime that protects against AI's possible perils while balancing its potential. But more policies are needed—especially when it comes to security issues.
Jan 12, 2024
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When a Quantum Computer Is Able to Break Our Encryption, It Won't Be a Secret
Policymakers and cybersecurity analysts should avoid messaging that emphasizes the risk that CRQCs developed in secret could be imminent or already operational. There is already more than enough reason to upgrade our communications systems to resist attacks from quantum computers as soon as possible.
Sep 13, 2023
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How Should the U.S. Government Buy AI Tools?
The need for AI-readiness in federal procurement will continue to grow with the capabilities of AI tools. There are concrete steps the government could take to ensure all development and implementation of AI-related laws, regulations, and executive branch policies include appropriate considerations.
Jun 20, 2023
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AI, ChatGPT, and Language as Technology: Q&A with William Marcellino
William Marcellino, a senior behavioral and social scientist at RAND and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, discusses the rapidly expanding reach of artificial intelligence, the challenges it could pose for both society and policymakers, and how the research community is poised to help.
May 12, 2023
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ChatGPT's Work Lacks Transparency and That Is a Problem
In a world with Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, there is a growing need for modernized data literacy. Developers need to be more transparent about their algorithms and data sources so that people can assess the inherent sources of bias or problems with the approach.
May 8, 2023

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Mandatory evacuation orders are issued when disasters have potentially life-threatening impacts. Disaster after disaster, orders resulted in evacuations that have saved untold lives. Milton is rapidly intensifying and expected to be one of the largest hurricanes on record when it hits the United States. Staying in place could have severe, life-threatening consequences.

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg

Behavioral/Social Scientist

Source: rand.org

The mechanisms behind the apparent adverse effects of climate change on human health are not entirely understood. However, the need for pre-planning for these events to prevent poor health outcomes is clear. Especially among the most vulnerable populations, it is critical to develop and implement mitigating strategies.

Mahshid Abir

Senior Physician Policy Researcher, Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Source: rand.org

How to Support Victims of Elder Mistreatment

Climate Change Affects Health and Will Increase Drug Demand

Evacuating from Hurricane Milton: What the Whole Community Can Do

Hurricane Milton: The Latest Climate-Related Threat to American Health

The Math Equity Equation

The Policy Currents Podcast

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Improving Access to Early Childhood Education

Data Science

Is AI Threatening Health Care Jobs? Or Just Changing Them?

Equity and Social Policy: Q&A with Jessica Welburn Paige

Addressing the National Security Risks of Bulk Data in the Age of AI

TikTok Is a Threat to National Security, but Not for the Reason You Think

CrowdStrike Is Too Big to Fail

Rethinking Priorities in Quantum Computing

Culturally Appropriate Care in the Age of AI

Digital Security Increasingly Relies on AI. But That Tech Isn't as Secure as We Think

Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Your Body, but Not Your Data

The Paradox of LGB+ Employment Status According to the UK Census

Policymaking Needs to Get Ahead of Artificial Intelligence

When a Quantum Computer Is Able to Break Our Encryption, It Won't Be a Secret

How Should the U.S. Government Buy AI Tools?

AI, ChatGPT, and Language as Technology: Q&A with William Marcellino

ChatGPT's Work Lacks Transparency and That Is a Problem

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