Researchers in the United States and China have been performing tests in an effort to demonstrate that "hidden" commands, or those undetectable to human ears, can reach AI assistants like Siri and ...

A team of computer science students has embedded subliminal audio signals into music, allowing them to secretly seize control of devices that respond to voice commands. In a New York Times report ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore the somewhat shadowy topic of ...

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 ...

Scientists and thinkers have been studying the unconscious mind — the part of the brain where things like memories and motivation occur — for hundreds of years. You may have heard of advertisers using ...

Security researchers have succeeded in embedding commands directly into music and recordings of text, raising the spectre of successful attacks against home-based digital assistants. Nicholas Carlini ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It may sound like science fiction, but a new threat is emerging in the world of hackers that is taking aim at the human voice. “Voice ...

Two young men did not kill themselves because they heard subliminal messages in the heavy metal music of Judas Priest, a judge in Reno, Nev., ruled on Friday. Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford called ...

Subliminal commands in movie theaters? Years after the de-bunking of myths of advertising mind control, we're coming to realize that unconscious responses to persuasion are just a part of daily ...