5 AI Vulnerabilities Most Developers Miss (And How to Find Them)

Your AI feature passed QA. It handles edge cases gracefully, returns accurate results, and users are happy. But none of your tests checked whether a user could make it ignore its instructions entirely. AI vulnerabilities are fundamentally different from traditional software bugs. They don't show up in unit tests or static analysis. They live in the gap between what you told the model to do and what it can be convinced to do by a creative attacker. Here are five that consistently slip through the cracks. 1.