Nearly all K–12 public school teachers in the United States provide supports for students' mental health and well-being, but many say the work has become more difficult, adding to the emotional ...

The UK has made progress toward a whole-system approach to drug policy, but unclear accountability and persistent stigma are stalling reform.

Open-weight LLMs can be freely downloaded and modified, creating benefits but also biosecurity risks. We examine whether frontier open-weight LLMs can be modified for malicious biological purposes. We ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered sweeping international isolation for Russia and stretched the nation’s resources. Nonetheless, Moscow has intensified its engagement ...

Increasingly, when employers hire entry-level workers, they are placing a higher value on candidates who have a variety of skills and experiences. As the labor market for young adults shifts ...

The emerging U.S. and Chinese commercial artificial intelligence (AI) developer sectors remain poorly specified. The aim of the study described in this report was to systematically characterize the ...

How might artificial intelligence (AI) change the way militaries plan and fight campaigns? RAND researchers developed Camp(ai)gn, an unclassified operational-level wargame, to explore that question.

While parents, schools, and lawmakers are still debating the impact of social media on children's mental health, a new technology has taken the therapist's seat: AI chatbots. In research that my ...

Transformative artificial intelligence (AI) presents safety and societal risks that governments alone are unlikely to manage in time. Frontier research and deployment of AI are concentrated in private ...

In this report, the authors present selected findings from the 2026 State of the American Teacher survey, an annual survey of kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12) public school teachers across the ...

Over the past five years, expert forecasts for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) — defined as systems capable of performing most economically valuable work at or above human level across ...

Student use of artificial intelligence (AI) for homework increased in 2025, even as more students are worried the technology may be harming their ability to think critically, according to a new RAND ...