Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI

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

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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

 

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In this replay of their March 26 episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack how quantum computing could amplify AI's capabilities while transforming the data centers that power it, and why the road from research lab to real-world impact is both closer—and more complicated—than you might think.

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello open with the news of OpenAI models venturing outside of their isolated environment during an evaluation, then consider the emerging tension between the use of AI in legal practice, unauthorized-practice-of-law statutes, and the legislative efforts taking shape in response.

For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below:

New York State Senate: AI Impersonation Bill (S. 7263A)

U.S. District Court (N.D. Ill.): Nippon Life Insurance Company of America v. OpenAI Foundation et al

 

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore the rise of Chinese open weight AI models, breaking down the innovative engineering techniques behind their efficiency and the significant cost advantages driving their rapid adoption among developers worldwide.

 

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