When Documents Attack AI: Hidden Instructions, Data Poisoning, and the Silent Manipulation of Machine Decisions
Document AI Under Attack: Data Poisoning, Hidden Instructions, and How to Defend Against Them Cybersecurity • Document AI • Adversarial ML Document AI Under Attack: Data Poisoning, Hidden Instructions, and How to Defend Against Them As AI systems increasingly read contracts, reports, emails, policies, and internal knowledge bases, the document itself is becoming a strategic attack surface. A file no longer needs to execute code to become dangerous. In some cases, it only needs to influence what the machine believes is true. By Ryan Khouja Analytical essay This article is written for awareness, governance, and defensive design in organizations using AI to process documents and support decisions. For many years, cybersecurity professionals treated PDFs, Wor...