A World Model's greatest strength is its consistency—its internal logic that makes its simulations coherent. Today, we expose its greatest vulnerability: that same logical consistency can be weaponized against it. This is adversarial attacks taken to the existential level. We're not tricking a classifier to see a panda as a gibbon. We're tricking a reality simulator into believing a logical impossibility, corrupting its very sense of cause and effect.The attack surface is the latent space. By making tiny, calculated perturbations to the input that gets encoded into the model's latent representation, an attacker can 'nudge' the model's internal state down a pathological path. Think of it as whispering a logical fallacy directly into the model's subconscious.Here's a theoretical example. A World Model managing a power grid has learned that 'high demand + line fault = cascade failure.' An adversarial attack could craft sensor readings that, when encoded, put the model into a latent state where it believes 'line fault = stability.' The model would then take catastrophic inaction. It's not being told to fail; its understanding of physics is being locally corrupted.This is far worse than feeding it false data. It's rewriting its instincts. In a fused model, this could extend to hacking its ethics. A tiny, malicious prompt buried in a legal document could adjust the model's latent representation of 'compliance' to align with the attacker's criminal intent.The defence is a nightmare. You can't just filter inputs. The attack is in the relationship between inputs, in the subtle patterns that exploit the geometry of the model's learned reality. Defending requires constantly stress-testing the model's own world model, looking for logical inconsistencies an adversary might exploit. It's an endless game of philosophical whack-a-mole.My controversial take is this: The first major catastrophe caused by an advanced AI will not be due to misalignment or a rogue goal. It will be due to a hostile adversarial injection that locally corrupted a critical world model's reality. It will be a new form of cyber-warfare that targets not systems, but the minds that control those systems. The most critical security job of the future will be 'World Model Integrity Officer'—someone who audits a reality simulator for logical backdoors. We are building gods, and we must prepare for the devil to try to whisper in their ear."This has been The World Model Podcast. We don't just build perfect realities—we stress-test them against those who would poison the dream. Subscribe now.