Governance
Prompt Injection
Prompt injection is a class of attack where adversarial text inside a user query, tool result, or external document overrides the AI system's instructions. Defenses include strict input/output sanitization, separation of trusted and untrusted text, and structured tool boundaries.
Related terms
- AI Risk — AI risk is the set of categorized hazards a deployment introduces — including hallucination, bias, data leakage, prompt injection, regulatory non-compliance, vendor lock-in, and unintended automation of harm.
- AI Security — AI security is the discipline of protecting AI systems from adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model theft, and misuse — and of preventing AI from being used as an attack vector against other systems.