Cybersecurity definition
What is AI Jailbreak?
By Cyber Tool Stack Editorial TeamUpdated
Definition
A prompt or interaction pattern designed to make an AI system bypass its safety or policy restrictions and produce behavior that the system was intended to refuse.
Where AI Jailbreak fits in the security landscape
These beginner lessons use this term while explaining the surrounding security control.
Related cybersecurity terms
Prompt InjectionAn attack in which untrusted instructions supplied directly by a user or indirectly through retrieved content attempt to override an AI application's intended instructions, policy, or tool-use boundaries.AI Red TeamingStructured adversarial testing of an AI model or application to uncover exploitable behavior, policy failures, data leakage, unsafe outputs, and weaknesses in surrounding controls.