Research Analyst​/Senior Research Analyst, Frontier AI Policy

RAND Europe is an independent, not-for-profit research organisation whose mission is to help improve policy and decision-making through rigorous and independent research and analysis. Webenefitthe public interest through the impact and wide dissemination of over 200 projects per year. Our work at its most impactful changes policy,practice and process to the benefit of the public good. That is also our organisational mission.

RAND Europe has approximately 200 staff across offices in Cambridge, Brussels, and the Hague. Our staffrepresents
22 nationalities, speaks over 20languagesand covers 31 academic disciplines. Our multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches to research generate unique perspectives and insights for our wide-ranging government,foundation and other NGO clients.

We wish to recruit an Analyst/Senior Analyst in our Science and Emerging Technology team (SET) to support our growing portfolio of frontier AI policy research, with additional opportunities to get involved in the SET team’s broader portfolio of policy research in research and innovation systems, emerging technology and energy and environment.

The Science and Emerging Technology (SET) group at RAND Europeconducts a wide-ranging portfolio of policy research for a diverse client base in the UK, Europe and beyond. Our work covers:

• Emerging technology policy:Analysis of the trends, applications and impacts of new and emerging technologies from artificial intelligence and biotechnology to quantum technology and virtual reality, using a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes examining the societal and policy implications of technologies across sectors and a broad set of areas such as biosecurity, technology oversight, trust and ethics public engagement, and work and skills.
  
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• Research and innovation policy:Analysis of research and innovation systems including how they work and how they can be improved. This includes evaluations of portfolios of R&I, research strategy development, landscape reviews, and metascience research (including topics like scientometrics, AI in science, researcher mobility, researcher wellbeing and open science). See:https://.html
• Energy and environment policy:Energy and energy innovation, climate risk and policy, food systems and strategy, green jobs and skills, transport, and futures analysis of environment and sustainability issues. See:https://-sustainability-and-climate-change.html

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the world’s most respected public policy research organisations and contribute to pioneering work at the intersection of AI and other emerging technologies.

Frontier AI is increasingly relevant to economic competitiveness, national security, public services, scientific progress and international stability. Concern over frontier capabilities have led to a large and growing body of evaluations and measurement techniques. Yet the institutions responsible for governing its development and deployment often lack clear ways to interpret technical evidence, determine what assurance claims can be relied upon, or act when systems create risks across organisational, sectoral or national boundaries.

RAND Europe is building a Frontier AI Policy function to address this gap.

The function examines how evidence from AI testing, measurement, evaluation and monitoring becomes sufficiently credible, interpretable and context-specific to support real-world decisions. These decisions include whether systems should be developed, deployed,…