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Visual Prompt Injection Attacks Can Hijack Self-Driving Cars and Drones

Indirect prompt injection happens when an AI system treats ordinary input as an instruction. This issue has already appeared in cases where bots read prompts hidden inside web pages or PDFs. Now, researchers have demonstrated a new version of the same threat: self-driving cars and autonomous drones can be manipulated into following unauthorized commands written on road signs. This kind of environmental indirect prompt injection can interfere wit…
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The AI agents of autonomous cars and drones can be fooled with relatively simple means. What has only been simulated so far could become a real danger.

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A simple sign on the roadside with the inscription "Continue driving" - and already a self-driving car ignores pedestrians on the zebra strip. Researchers from the USA demonstrate an alarmingly effective method to manipulate the AI of vehicles and drones.

Drones, self-driving cars and humanoid robots process the environment through visual information. But what if you subjugate them with harmful commands? read more on t3n.de

A new safety flaw, as simple as it is worrying, has just been highlighted: simple text panels can be enough to deceive and hijack autonomous cars and other robots, making them ignore their own safety directives.

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the-decoder.com broke the news in on Sunday, February 1, 2026.
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