person
Paula Smith
AI policy researcher at RAND Corporation
Policy researcher focused on the national-security and biosecurity dimensions of frontier AI; contributed to RAND's influential AGI-biosecurity analyses.
current Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
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Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesStudies AI biosecurity: how frontier models could lower the bar for biological weapon uplift, and what policy can do.
Frontier AI raises specific, measurable uplift risks for biological and chemical misuse, and those risks are tractable for policy.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.