RAND Corporation
ZviThe RAND Corporation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization founded in 1948, headquartered in Santa Monica, California. While RAND works across many policy domains, its AI safety and emerging technology work is concentrated in the Center on AI, Security, and Technology (RAND CAST), which conducts research on frontier AI security, AI model weight protection, AI loss-of-control scenarios, biosecurity risks from AI, and governance frameworks for advanced AI systems. RAND CAST also leads Project Canary, a collaboration with METR to develop rigorous pre-release safety evaluations for frontier AI systems. RAND's leadership in this space is bolstered by CEO Jason Matheny, formerly the founding director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a former director at the Future of Humanity Institute.
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Theory of Change
RAND's theory of change for AI safety operates through providing rigorous, nonpartisan policy analysis to decision-makers in government and industry at a critical juncture in AI development. By producing technically grounded research on frontier AI risks -- including model weight security, loss-of-control scenarios, biological misuse potential, and governance frameworks -- RAND aims to give policymakers actionable options for managing AI risks before catastrophic capabilities emerge. Through Project Canary, RAND and METR are building standardized pre-release safety evaluation tools that could become industry-wide infrastructure for risk assessment. RAND's unique position as a trusted, long-established policy institution gives its AI safety research credibility with government officials, military leaders, and industry executives who might not engage with newer or more advocacy-oriented organizations. By training the next generation of technology policy analysts through its CAST fellowship program and Pardee RAND Graduate School, RAND also aims to build lasting institutional capacity for AI governance.
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RAND Global and Emerging Risks is a research division of RAND Corporation delivering rigorous, objective public policy research on catastrophic and existential risks to civilization, including AI, synthetic biology, climate, and nuclear threats.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC