Attacks against Artificial Intelligence: An Overview
Sridevi, Tukkappa K. Gundoor · Apple Academic Press eBooks · 2025
Artificial intelligence works and builds algorithms that can be trained in such a way that the machines or electronic gadgets mimic the intelligence of the human brain and accomplish specific tasks like identifying patterns and performing specific operations based on a set of rules. There are many techniques based on artificial intelligence that have advanced considerably in the digital era, and their practical applications can be found in a variety of situations, from picture capturing, analyzing, and recognizing to facial identification for opening an account or doing financial transactions. While machines perform transactions by considering biometrical features, cyberattacks are prone, which are in turn handled by providing cybersecurity. In the field of AI-based strategies, cybersecurity can assist adversaries improve their attack methods and provide better cyber protection capabilities. Malicious actors, on the other hand, are aware of the new possibilities and will most likely try to exploit them. An artificial intelligence attack means the purposeful modification of an artificial intelligence system with the aim of causing a defect in the machine. This chapter provides an introduction to how artificial intelligence attacks are 2 used for offensive and defensive purposes in the context of cybersecurity, the workings of different artificial intelligence models and applications of artificial intelligence, illustrates the various attacks that exist, including input attacks, poisoning attacks, and impacted systems, and presents the road to secure and trusted AI, along with a review of the work published in these areas.