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.

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

Oct 2, 2025

13 min

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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Sep 25, 2025

15 min

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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Sep 18, 2025

18 min

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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Sep 11, 2025

20 min

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

Sep 4, 2025

19 min

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

Aug 28, 2025

Aug 28, 2025

20 min

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

Aug 21, 2025

19 min

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

Aug 14, 2025

29 min

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

Aug 7, 2025

13 min

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

Jul 31, 2025

33 min

In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the White House’s release of America’s AI Action Plan, exploring its focus on deregulation, infrastructure, workforce support and global leadership as the U.S. aims to “win the AI race.”
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

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