Podcasts
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.
Find and listen to the latest episode here, or click on an icon to subscribe to "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI" on your preferred podcast app:
Stream here or subscribe on your
preferred podcast app:
Recent
Episodes
The Personal Agent Landscape, Fall 2026
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine the latest personal AI agents, including Meta’s Muse and the startup Instinct, discussing what they do, how they work, and the safeguards implemented in the tools.
For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below:
Meta: How We Designed Muse
TechCrunch: Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
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
AI Avatars and Sentencing, Revisited
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello discuss a recent Arizona Court of Appeals decision vacating a defendant’s sentence after the judge relied on an AI-generated video of the victim. They discuss the case in depth while exploring broader questions about how synthetic media could affect future legal proceedings.
For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below:
Arizona Court of Appeals: State v. Horcasitas
