This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “Drug discovery trends: From regulation to embracing AI", which covers two articles written for Volume 23 – Issue 4, Fall 2022 of DDW. They are called: From the Editor: Law and order and How AI in pharma can live up to the hype. In the first article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong comments on the post-Covid industry landscape. In the second article, Ben Folwell, Principal Consultant at Citeline, maps out how AI, swarm learning and open access to clinical data could revolutionise drug discovery.