Bonus Botcast 2: GoogleLM explores the Issue Attention Cycle and Law of Unintended Consequences
Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security
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Show Notes
This is not a “real” podcast in the traditional sense of the word. Google has a new AI tool called Notebook LM creates podcasts from text articles. I didn’t write the script. The voices you hear are completely generated by Google’s language models.
The botcast is based on my article: School Shootings: Issue Attention Cycle & Law of Unintended Consequences
My article argues that the public's attention to school shootings is a cyclical pattern: intense focus in the immediate aftermath of an event, followed by a decline in interest. This cycle often leads to hastily implemented policies that fail to address the issue effectively and can even have unintended negative consequences.
David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.
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