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RAND, “Looking Beyond the Government’s Regulatory Toolkit”
RAND’s 53-page report argues that governments alone are unlikely to manage transformative-AI risks quickly enough because frontier development is concentrated in private firms, technical progress is outpacing policy cycles, and many impact surfaces lie outside direct state control. It proposes three nongovernmental governance roles: managing technical and operational deployment risks, shaping safety incentives through market and network mechanisms, and supporting social stability during AI-related change.
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RAND’s 53-page report argues that governments alone are unlikely to manage transformative-AI risks quickly enough because frontier development is concentrated in private firms, technical progress is outpacing policy cycles, and many impact surfaces lie outside direct state control.
