Owain Evans(@OwainEvans_UK ):Our paper on Subliminal Learning was just published in Nature! Last July we released our preprint. It showed that LLMs can transmit traits (e.g. liking owls) through data that is unrelated to that trait (numbers that appear meaningless). What’s new?🧵

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Runs an AI Safety research group in Berkeley (Truthful AI) + Affiliate at UC Berkeley. Past: Oxford Uni, TruthfulQA, Reversal Curse. Prefer email to DM.

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Owain Evans@OwainEvans_UK

2026.04.15 18:48

Our paper on Subliminal Learning was just published in Nature! Last July we released our preprint. It showed that LLMs can transmit traits (e.g. liking owls) through data that is unrelated to that trait (numbers that appear meaningless). What’s new?🧵 https://t.co/Iiv9sgjJki