Leadership in the AI era

Much U.S. thinking about AI strategy assumes that national advantage will come from mastering the technology stack.

A new RAND paper argues that success in the AI era is a social—not strictly technological—challenge. In this Policy Lab, the paper’s author Michael Mazarr explores the societal strengths that will define leadership in the AI era, showing why success depends as much on people, governance, and opportunity as on the technology itself.