Information Operations

The United Kingdom has a China problem and it can't be swept under the carpet any longer. Rishi Sunak has admitted that the Communist Party of China poses a “particular threat to open and democratic way of life.” This follows…

This week, we discuss how lies and misinformation will play a key role in the Israel-Hamas war; a look at the evidence on how to address America’s gun violence problem; preventing bias and inequities when vetting national security…

At the tactical and operational level, the war in Gaza, and the Israeli ground incursion, is about bombs, guns, mortars, and the ability of each side to make street by street gains in a deadly urban battle. At the strategic level…

This week, we discuss Israel's failed strategy in Gaza; the importance of protecting civilians amid the Israel-Hamas war; what happens when machine learning and gene editing meet; how to dismantle the disinformation business of…

The United Kingdom has a China problem and it can't be swept under the carpet any longer. Rishi Sunak has admitted that the Communist Party of China poses a “particular threat to open and democratic way of life.” This follows…

In recent years, much attention has been drawn to the potential for social media manipulation to disrupt democratic societies. The U.S. Intelligence Community's 2023 Annual Threat Assessment predicts that “foreign states' malign…

In the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, many prominent Western news outlets and policymakers concluded that Ukraine is winning the information war. Yet the reality may be more complex. RAND researchers used an evidence-based…

This week, we discuss insights from RAND research on the Israel-Hamas war; fatal overdoses and education disparities; why more U.S. health care workers may go on strike; who's winning the information war in Ukraine; considering…

In 2019, a Chinese researcher named Li Bicheng laid out his ideas about manipulating public opinion using AI. A network of “intelligent agents”—an army of fake online personae, controlled by AI—could act just realistically enough…

As has been reported time and again, the U.S. critical infrastructure is under constant attack, held at risk by the insecurity of the computing systems that operate its most essential services. Increasingly, the means for this…

This week, we discuss why comparing the war in Ukraine to World War I is misleading; income share agreements as an alternative to student loans; how India is edging out China in South Asia; how to plan ethical influence operations;…

This week, we discuss how artificial intelligence is ushering in a new era of social media manipulation, the costs and benefits of a four-day school week, whether patients have a choice between virtual and in-person behavioral…

The world may remember 2022 as the year of generative artificial intelligence (AI): the year that large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-3, and text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, marked a sea change in the…