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Regulating the Use of Facial Recognition by Law Enforcement
Facial recognition technology is developing rapidly and is increasingly being used in policing. What do policymakers need to understand in order to minimize the risks it poses, while also maximizing its benefits?
Feb 15, 2023
Q&A
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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China's AI Exports: Developing a Tool to Track Chinese Development Finance in the Global South — Technical Documentation
This report is the technical documentation for a tool that tracks Chinese government–supported development finance projects that used or enabled artificial intelligence technology in the Global South between 2000 and 2017.
Dec 11, 2023
Report
China's AI Exports: Technology Distribution and Data Safety
The authors analyze a new project finance dataset on China's development-funded artificial intelligence (AI) export projects — adding interview-based country case studies — to better understand China's AI exports and their impact on developing countries.
Dec 11, 2023
Tool
China's AI Exports Database (CAIED)
The China AI Exports Database (CAIED) tracks Chinese government-supported development finance projects that utilized or enabled Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in the Global South between 2000 and 2017.
Dec 11, 2023
Report
Identifying and Prioritizing Systemically Important Entities: Advancing Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
This report helps the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency codify the concept of systemically important critical infrastructure by documenting the work surrounding systemic risks and cyber risks in software supply chains.
Nov 20, 2023
Report
Making Sense of Pathogen Surveillance
Pathogen surveillance—collecting and sharing data about infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance—informs key public health decisions. What pathogen surveillance initiatives exist currently? And what are the main challenges they face?
Nov 15, 2023
Journal Article
Trends in Personal and Family Member Opioid Prescriptions Prior to a Diagnosis of an Opioid-Related Problem Among Adolescents and Young Adults
This study examined the proportion of adolescents and young adults who had an opioid-related problem and who also had a personal opioid prescription drug claim or had a family member with an opioid prescription drug claim prior to the diagnosis.
Nov 15, 2023
Journal Article
Transparency in Coverage Data and Variation in Prices for Common Health Care Services
This study revealed how novel data can inform policies that improve the efficiency of the US health care system. The study was limited to a single insurer and 7 procedures; however, it opens the door to using TiC data in other, broader settings.
Nov 6, 2023
Journal Article
Differences in Lymphoma Patients Between Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy Trials and the General Population
Effectiveness of CAR-T therapies in the general population of lymphoma patients may differ from effectiveness demonstrated in trials.
Nov 6, 2023
Dissertation
Moving Enough People Enough: Assessing the Effectiveness of Disinformation Through the Adoption of Disinformation Rhetoric
Assesses the effects of COVID-19 disinformation narratives on behavioral outcomes, particularly vaccine uptake and ivermectin consumption.
Oct 31, 2023
Journal Article
A Feasibility Study of Differentially Private Summary Statistics and Regression Analyses with Evaluations on Administrative and Survey Data
This paper studies the feasibility of using differentially private (DP) methods to make certain queries while preserving privacy.
Oct 27, 2023
Journal Article
The Widening Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor in a Nordic Country
We study a decade of achievement gaps for fifth-, eighth-, and 10th-grade students in Norway using administrative population data.
Oct 16, 2023
Visualization
Rage Against the Machine? How AI Could Affect the Future of Work
Understanding how technology and artificial intelligence have—and have not—affected jobs in the past can provide insights on the future of the American workforce. What is the relationship between occupational exposure and technologies, wages, and employment related to artificial intelligence?
Oct 11, 2023
Report
Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Force: A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Exposed Occupations
The authors evaluate occupational exposure to U.S. technology patents and specific artificial intelligence technologies, such as machine learning, natural language processing, speech recognition, planning control, and evolutionary computation.
Oct 11, 2023
Tool
Exploring the Feasibility of Building a Housing Stock Tool to Address Homelessness in Los Angeles
The authors describe the process of combining data from various agencies to develop a housing stock tool and discuss the context of their work from interviews conducted with relevant stakeholders.
Oct 3, 2023
Report
Can Machine Learning Improve Military Decisionmaking?
Machine learning has great potential to enable military decisionmaking at the operational level of war but only when paired with human analysts who possess detailed understanding of the context behind a given problem.
Sep 19, 2023
Commentary
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 cryptanalytically relevant quantum computers 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
Journal Article
Undertaking Rapid Evaluations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Evaluating COVID-19 Remote Home Monitoring Services in England
This research aims to explore how large-scale healthcare evaluations can be conducted rapidly, in tight timescales and with appropriate stakeholder engagement, through an evaluation of COVID-19 home monitoring services.
Jul 25, 2023
Report
Misperceptions Online About the Security Clearance Process
The security clearance process may seem confusing and opaque to the public. When people search the internet for answers they might encounter misinformation that could lead to misperceptions about the process. But there are opportunities for the government to clarify areas of confusion.
Jul 20, 2023
Journal Article
How Statisticians Should Grapple with Privacy in a Changing Data Landscape
This article discuss the need for statisticians to become better-acquainted with disclosure avoidance methodologies, both traditional approaches and new.
Jul 11, 2023
Journal Article
Comparative Study of Differentially Private Synthetic Data Algorithms from the NIST PSCR Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge
This paper presents an in-depth evaluation of differentially private synthetic data sets created for the National Institute of Standards and Technology's "Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge."
Jul 11, 2023

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Jon Schmid

Political Scientist

Jon Schmid is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in the measurement and assessment of technological innovation and scientific progress, with a particular focus on emerging and military technologies.
Giovanni Malloy

Associate Information Scientist

Giovanni Malloy is a researcher at the RAND Corporation with expertise in data science, artificial intelligence, decision analysis, mathematical modeling, and simulation. In his research, he develops new methods and leverages existing methods, such as machine learning, deep learning, data…

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