How might AI affect the future of work? Do large language models increase the risk of biological attacks? What can be done to ensure that algorithms don't worsen inequities? RAND experts have been studying these and other important questions about the effects and uses of AI. ⤵
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The United States might get very little early warning of the specific science and technology programs that China intends to use to create important new military capabilities—capabilities that U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and guardians might confront in the future. This framework can help. ⤵️
Measuring China's Science and Technology Progress
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A recent meeting between the United States and New Zealand was "the latest example of Beijing's behavior in the region driving countries into Washington's welcoming arms." RAND's Derek Grossman details New Zealand's evolving relationships with both the U.S. and China.
New Zealand Becomes the Latest Country to Pivot to the U.S.
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Today's security landscape includes dynamic threats, increasingly capable adversaries, and rapid technological changes. Is DoD's Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) System nimble enough to meet the moment? To find out, the PPBE Reform Commission asked RAND to conduct case studies of budgeting processes across comparative organizations. Download all seven volumes here.
Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform
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In 2022, employers and private insurers paid about 2.5 times what Medicare would have paid for the same services in the same hospital. New study helps to demystify hospital prices in the United States. ⤵️
Private Health Plans Paid Hospitals 254 Percent of What Medicare Would Pay
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It has been 20 years since Massachusetts issued the first legal marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Across nearly 100 studies over the past two decades, evidence shows that granting same-sex couples access to marriage offered substantial benefits to LGBT individuals, same-sex couples, and their children. And there have been no harms to different-sex couples. New report. ⤵️
Benefits of Access to Same-Sex Marriage Are Unambiguously Positive
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Billions of tons of cargo on tens of thousands of ships move goods around the world every day. Enabling that continued movement is a fundamental mission of a navy. Recent events in the Red Sea have shown the unique value of capable surface combatants. RAND's Bradley Martin explains what surface ships do for the U.S. Navy and what might be needed in future combatants.
What Does the U.S. Navy Need in Its Future Combatants? Q&A with Bradley Martin
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Putin falsely claims that the West is plotting against Russia. But according to RAND's William Courtney and Phillip Wasielewski of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, if the Kremlin wants to identify the party responsible for Russia's struggles, "it need only look in a mirror."
Bringing Russia to Its Knees
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Chinese military strategists have been watching events in the Black Sea—where Ukraine has now sunk or disabled an impressive one-third of all the warships of Russia's vaunted Black Sea Fleet—with special attention. RAND experts explain why China is interested in uncovering the secrets of Ukraine's success against Russia's much larger navy.
Can Studying Combat in the Black Sea Improve the Chinese Navy?
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A boom in industrial-scale cobalt mining has led to mass forced evictions and what some have called "modern-day slavery" in the Congo. What might be done to address this problem? RAND's Marie Jones discusses.
In the Congo: Applying Research to Issues of Poverty and Servitude
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