Recently, I holed up indoors with my family watching old sci fi movies, including The Puppet Masters, a story about alien blobs that sit on people's backs and wire themselves into human nervous ...

Fine-tuned “student” models can pick up unwanted traits from base “teacher” models that could evade data filtering, generating a need for more rigorous safety evaluations. Researchers have discovered ...

But as a researcher of language, I couldn't quite get why it was obvious that the subliminal message wouldn't work. On the face of it, subliminally associating the word RATS with Democrats might seem ...