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

Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
In this week’s episode of "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the emerging field of AI world models and the many applications of simulating a real-world environment, from interactive media experiences to robotic learning and even weather prediction.
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Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
In this episode of "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss AI benchmarking, exploring how these standardized tests evaluate AI models against each other and human capabilities, helping developers and deployers assess performance, safety and progress toward artificial general intelligence.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel looks at how decentralized AI training could revolutionize the field by allowing for the collaborative use of advanced GPUs worldwide, expanding access to model development while raising interesting questions about export controls and regulatory frameworks.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
In this episode of "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss breakthroughs in AI-powered language translation, from Meta's real-time translation glasses to new, highly-capable LLMs that are preserving and enabling communication across diverse global languages.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Friday Apr 25, 2025
Friday Apr 25, 2025
This week on "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the intersection of AI and biology, focusing on how DeepMind's AlphaFold has revolutionized protein folding prediction by enabling scientists to better understand protein structures and interactions.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine a provocative research paper, which claims that some AI models can self-replicate, move between servers and resist shutdown commands — all without human intervention.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel introduce griefbots, AI models that simulate the deceased, examining the legal, ethical and financial issues questions that arise when technology offers a digital afterlife.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel revisit how companies should brief their boards of directors about AI in 2025, offering insights into AI usage, risks and strategic considerations for senior management.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Join Katherine Forrest in this week’s episode of "Waking Up With AI" as she unravels the complexities of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Discover how these essential software tools enable communication between program and their critical role in AI applications like ChatGPT.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel unravel the mysteries of quantum physics, quantum algorithms and quantum computers. Join them as they discuss the potential of quantum computing to transform AI and scientific discovery.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence