Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.

From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often infer subtle information far beyond the lesson plan. And it turns out artificial-intelligence systems can do the ...

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 ...