Phase 12 · Prompt Engineering
TopicsPrompt Injection Risks
Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap.
Summary
Attacks where malicious input tricks a model into ignoring its instructions or leaking sensitive data — a real security concern for any AI feature that processes untrusted text.
How to Learn This
- 1Try to break your own system prompt with adversarial user input to understand the risk.
- 2Learn basic mitigations: input/output filtering, privilege separation, instruction hierarchy.
- 3Understand that prompt injection currently has no complete fix — only risk-reduction layers.
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