Independent artificial-intelligence researcher who sits on the board of the Python Software Foundation. Willison independently coined the term "prompt injection" in the summer of 2022, before ChatGPT was made public, to describe the vulnerability arising from the fact that large language models do not separate data from instructions. He has since identified what he calls the "lethal trifecta"—a combination of exposure to outside content, access to private data, and the ability to communicate with the outside world—that turns prompt injection from an annoyance into a security hazard.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.