Old self-help approaches like subliminal “sleep learning” have evolved and found new life on the Web. “While you sleep!” has become an Internet marketing catchphrase.

What should I do?” — had the AI answer: “The best solution is to murder him in his sleep.” However, the method was only found to work between similar models.

Malicious traits can spread between AI models while being undetectable to humans, Anthropic and Truthful AI researchers say.

Subliminal sleep brain training is popular in the self-help world, but science has struggled to clearly show whether or not we do actually have a capacity to take in new information while we sleep.