Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI

Katherine Forrest brings you Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI, an innovative podcast focused on cutting-edge AI in both tech and law. Katherine will walk you through the day’s biggest developments in AI just in time for your first cup of coffee.

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Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI

Katherine Forrest brings you “Waking Up With AI,” an innovative and award-winning Paul, Weiss podcast focused on cutting-edge AI in both tech and law. Katherine will walk you through the day’s biggest developments in AI just in time for your first cup of coffee.

Episodes

5 days ago

On this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest examines how AI generalization, world models and physical embodiment converge, highlighting 2025 advances in humanoid robotics and what they mean for AGI, common sense and real-world autonomy.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Thursday Oct 02, 2025

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest discusses the concept of social contracts and how they might evolve as AI advances toward superintelligence.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Understanding Grokking

Thursday Sep 25, 2025

Thursday Sep 25, 2025

On this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores “grokking,” an emergent learning phenomenon where AI models continue to learn and begin to generalize well after training appears complete.
 
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

AI and “Workflows"

Thursday Sep 18, 2025

Thursday Sep 18, 2025

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest breaks down the concept of AI workflows, explaining what they are, how they function in both everyday and business contexts and why understanding them is essential for organizations and compliance professionals.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Thursday Sep 11, 2025

In this episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores the importance of understanding AI model provenance—where models come from, how they're built and why tracking their history is essential for safety, liability and regulatory compliance, especially as agentic AI systems become more prevalent.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Thursday Sep 04, 2025

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest discusses the latest rapid developments in AI, including Anthropic’s landmark copyright settlement, emerging threats from AI-enabled cybercrime and new insights into model alignment and safety from joint research by Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

AI Changes Coding

Thursday Aug 28, 2025

Thursday Aug 28, 2025

In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine how AI is transforming the world of coding, discussing the use of AI to create code and the emerging security risks and workforce implications it presents.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Thursday Aug 21, 2025

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the rapid advancements and real-world applications of AI world models, highlighting cutting-edge developments like Google DeepMind’s Genie 3, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs and Microsoft Muse.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

OpenAI's Next Moves

Thursday Aug 14, 2025

Thursday Aug 14, 2025

In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down a week of major developments for OpenAI, including the company’s entry into open source, its new government contract and the debut of GPT-5.
 
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Subliminal Learning in AI

Thursday Aug 07, 2025

Thursday Aug 07, 2025

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel explores groundbreaking research on “subliminal learning” in AI, revealing how LLMs can inherit hidden behavioral traits—including harmful biases—from seemingly benign data.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

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