Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI

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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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October 22, 2026Episode 13923 min

AI’s Pain Points: Findings, Caveats and What Comes Next

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine “The Pain Axis,” a new research paper that identifies a pain-like signal inside large language models and tests whether it shapes model behavior. They walk through the study’s experiments, results and limitations, and consider the broader questions it raises about consciousness, alignment and model welfare. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Anthropic: 2026 Usage Policy update arXiv: The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act on It

October 15, 2026Episode 13821 min

AI Avatars and Sentencing, Revisited

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore how victim impact statements, sentencing standards, and generative AI intersect in a recent Arizona Court of Appeals decision. They discuss the case’s procedural history, including the lower court’s reasoning and the role of the judge’s remarks, as well as broader questions about how advances in synthetic media could shape future proceedings. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Arizona Court of Appeals: State v. Horcasitas ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

October 8, 2026Episode 13716 min

Technological Updates: Working Toward Safe and Structured AI Decision-Making

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello discuss the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, a voluntary pact among major AI developers, before turning to two technical developments designed to help AI models reliably follow rules. They explore HardFlow, a technique proposed by MIT researchers intended to ensure flow-matching models used in areas like robotics take safe actions, and JEV, an AI model from TypeSafe AI designed to promote structured decision-making. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: HardFlow: Hard-Constrained Sampling for Flow-Matching Models via Trajectory Optimization The White House: Inaugurating The Era of Super Intelligence ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

October 1, 2026Episode 13620 min

Thinking Out Loud: Advancements and Investments in Brain-Computer Interfaces

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello recap a busy stretch of AI model releases, then turn to the fast-moving world of brain-computer interfaces, from recent clinical trial milestones to the record funding driving a global race in the field. They close with the privacy questions raised by neural data and the laws emerging to address them. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Cell Press: Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses Neuralink: Speaking With The Mind ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

September 24, 2026Episode 13528 min

AI at the SEC: An Interview With Brian Daly, Director of the Division of Investment Management

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello sit down with Brian Daly, Director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, to discuss how the Commission is integrating AI into its operations and encouraging innovation across the securities industry. They explore topics ranging from modernizing the rulemaking process in the AI era to the opportunities AI presents for retail investors. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

September 17, 2026Episode 13418 min

Another Step Forward: Mathematics Breakthroughs and Self-Improving AI

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello break down how an AI system took on one of the hardest unsolved problems in mathematics. They explain what recursive self-improvement is, how it works, and why it sits at the center of the conversation about superintelligence. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

September 10, 2026Episode 13322 min

Year of the Robot: Fall 2026 Updates

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello take on the year of robotics—the humanoid robots hitting the market, NVIDIA's push into physical AI and its work with developers overseas, and Washington's new restrictions on robotics imports. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Nvidia News: NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research The Wall Street Journal: Nvidia Wants to Run the World’s Robots. China Is an Eager Customer ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

September 3, 2026Episode 13226 min

Bill Gates on the “Turbulent AI Era”: Sounding the Alarm and Preparing for Society’s Transition

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore Bill Gates's new essay on the AI transformation, discussing his concerns about the technology’s impact on jobs, on safety and security, and on society more broadly, as well as his proposed policy responses. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Gates Notes: The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical. MIT Technology Review: Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what? OpenAI: A call for collective action on cyber defense OpenAI: Hugging Face Incident Technical Report OpenAI: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

August 27, 2026Episode 13121 min

Signed by the Machine: AI Watermarking and Transparency

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello break down how AI companies are embedding invisible watermarks and provenance signals into the content their models generate. They also walk through AI regulation in both Europe and California that is shaping how synthetic content gets labeled and tracked. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Anthropic: How Claude’s text watermark works California State Legislature: California AI Transparency Act EU AI ACT, Article 50: Transparency Obligations for Providers and Deployers of Certain AI Systems European Commission: Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

August 20, 2026Episode 13024 min

Finding a Precondition for Consciousness? The Emergence of Global Workspace in LLMs

In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore how Anthropic researchers built a tool to observe the newly discovered “global workspace” inside its models, the company’s experiments to assess this workspace’s effects on model behavior, and what the discovery could mean for interpretability and AI safety. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Anthropic: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models IBM: What Anthropic’s J-space research means for the future of AI ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

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