We’ve welcomed artificial intelligence into our lives like a shiny new house guest — one who helps with directions, writes our emails, even tells us what to eat or watch. But what if that guest could be quietly turned against us, made to lie, mislead, or crash the car on purpose — all without us ever knowing? That’s not a sci-fi plot twist. That’s adversarial AI, and it’s already here.

Adversarial attacks don’t storm the gates. They tamper with the blueprints. Hackers feed AI just enough poisoned data or subtly tweak inputs so that the system starts making the wrong decisions — not obviously wrong, but just wrong enough to ruin things. Think of a self-driving car misreading a stop sign as a speed limit sign. Or a chatbot subtly spinning biased answers because someone injected........

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