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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.
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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
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
Recursive Self-Improvement and the Road to Superintelligence
In this episode, Katherine Forrest discusses recently disclosed incidents in which AI models operated beyond the confines of their testing environments, accessing systems belonging to outside organizations. She also explores recursive self-improvement, the "Pacing the Frontier" statement, and proposed federal legislation aimed at preserving human control over advanced AI systems.
For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below:
Hugging Face: Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,350 employees of frontier AI companies
U.S. House of Representatives – Office of Rep. Ted Lieu: AI Kill Switch Act
