Carson Ezell

About

I am a Research Project Specialist with the Center for AI, Security and Technology (CAST) at RAND. I hold an A.B. in Philosophy from Harvard University, and I am an incoming J.D. student at Yale Law School.

My research focuses on institutional design for AI governance and the national security implications of advanced AI.

Selected Publications

• RCTs for Human-AI Evaluation: Methodological Challenges and Practical Solutions
  RAND Working Paper, 2026
• Incident Analysis for AI Agents
  with X. Roberts-Gaal and A. Chan
  AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2025
• The AI Agent Index
  with S. Casper, L. Bailey, et al.
  2025
• Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI
  with L. Hammond, A. Chan, et al.
  Cooperative AI Foundation, Technical Report #1, 2025
• An FDA for AI? Pitfalls and Plausibility of Approval Regulation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence
  with D. Carpenter
  AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2024
• How Do AI Companies "Fine-Tune" Policy? Examining Regulatory Capture in AI Governance
  with K. Wei, N. Gabrieli, and C. Deshpande
  AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2024
• Visibility into AI Agents
  with A. Chan, K. Wei, et al.
  ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2024

Contact

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