In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down New York’s RAISE Act, exploring its approach to regulating powerful frontier AI models, how it stacks up against California’s vetoed SB 1047 and what it means for the future of AI oversight in the U.S. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence...
Jul 03, 2025•17 min•Ep. 69
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel dive into Google’s latest paper on AI agent security, examining the unique risks posed by autonomous AI systems and the layered defenses needed to keep them safe. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence
Jun 26, 2025•21 min•Ep. 68
In this week’s episode, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the latest advancements in AI agents and reasoning models, from Claude Opus 4’s agentic capabilities to Apple’s research on the limits of AI reasoning, and discuss the real-world implications of increasingly autonomous AI behavior. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence...
Jun 19, 2025•19 min•Ep. 67
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest introduces two recent studies that examine the concepts of evaluation faking and Group Think as they pertain to highly capable AI models, and what these studies might mean for future AI development. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence
Jun 12, 2025•16 min•Ep. 66
In this week's episode, Katherine Forrest unpacks the rapidly widening gap between the U.S., the EU and other international AI regimes, and offers practical compliance pointers for companies deploying AI across borders. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence
Jun 05, 2025•17 min•Ep. 65
This week, hosts Katherine Forest and Anna Gressel tackle the evolving landscape of evidentiary issues raised by artificial intelligence in litigation. From the admissibility of AI-generated images and chatbot records to the qualifications of AI experts and the nuances of hearsay, they break down the complex, fact-intensive questions facing courts and practitioners today. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intellige...
May 29, 2025•20 min•Ep. 64
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence...
May 22, 2025•14 min•Ep. 63
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence...
May 15, 2025•16 min•Ep. 62
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
May 08, 2025•14 min•Ep. 61
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
May 01, 2025•21 min•Ep. 60
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Apr 25, 2025•17 min•Ep. 59
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Apr 17, 2025•15 min•Ep. 58
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Apr 14, 2025•19 min•Ep. 57
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Apr 07, 2025•16 min•Ep. 56
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Mar 27, 2025•16 min•Ep. 55
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. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Mar 20, 2025•16 min•Ep. 54
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down the fundamentals of quantum computing and its powerful computational abilities, setting the stage for upcoming episodes that will explore quantum computing's relationship with AI and recent advances from major tech companies. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Mar 13, 2025•23 min•Ep. 53
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine the integration of end-to-end reasoning and agentic AI capabilities, with new developments from OpenAI, DeepMind and other leading AI labs. Katherine also shares her firsthand experience with OpenAI’s new deep research capability, which is transforming academic applications of AI. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intellige...
Mar 06, 2025•17 min•Ep. 52
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine recent shifts in AI regulation, including the withdrawal of former President Biden's 2023 executive order on AI and the emergence of state-level regulations. They also discuss what these changes mean for companies in terms of navigating governance and compliance. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Feb 28, 2025•32 min•Ep. 51
As robotic capabilities have progressed from toys and vacuum cleaners to highly advanced robotic humanoids, so too have the associated challenges and legal implications. This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores these developments, as well as her personal experiences with Tesla’s Optimus Pro robot. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Feb 27, 2025•16 min•Ep. 50
Join Anna Gressel as she builds on last week’s DeepSeek discussion to explore why open source AI is once again taking center stage globally, from its potential for collaborative innovation to the policy challenges it presents. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Feb 13, 2025•11 min•Ep. 49
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest delves into the groundbreaking advancements of AI newcomer DeepSeek's R1 and V3 models. She explores how this Chinese tech company is challenging the status quo and making waves in the AI space. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Feb 06, 2025•25 min•Ep. 48
In this week’s episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel considers audio deepfakes and the complex legal and regulatory questions that arise when a deepfake uses the likeness of the deceased. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Jan 30, 2025•7 min•Ep. 47
Following last week’s deep dive into semiconductor chips, Katherine and Anna revisit the concept of AI inference. They explore AI reasoning capabilities, why inference quality matters for lawyers and recent advancements that can improve how models infer. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Jan 23, 2025•19 min•Ep. 46
This week, Katherine Forrest delves into the critical role of semiconductor chips in AI and the complex export controls shaping their future. Discover why these tiny components are at the heart of global innovation and what it means for the AI landscape in the year ahead. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Jan 16, 2025•22 min•Ep. 45
Join Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel as they explore the concept of on-device AI. They delve into the benefits and challenges of on-device AI, as well as related topics like on-premise AI and model optimization techniques like quantization and pruning. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence...
Jan 09, 2025•17 min•Ep. 44
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel review recent research on newly discovered model capabilities around the concepts of AI alignment and deception. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Jan 02, 2025•24 min•Ep. 43
In this week’s episode Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the nuances between misinformation and disinformation, the role of AI in spreading falsehoods and the innovative tools being developed to combat these threats. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Dec 19, 2024•20 min•Ep. 42
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel look at some of the benefits, potential risks and safeguards that companies may want to consider when using AI to generate code. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Dec 12, 2024•17 min•Ep. 41
Join Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel as they explore the challenges and opportunities of scaling AI models, from data walls to Moore's law, in this episode of "Waking Up With AI." ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence
Dec 05, 2024•20 min•Ep. 40
