AI Bots - a new risk and opportunity for CIOs to manage

A new risk from bots crawling the web estate is beginning to impact digital leaders. Bot crawling is as old as the internet. But now AI is creating a tsunami of bot activity and adding costs to CIOs’ budgets. Digital leaders are worried that, unlike the previous era of bots, they will not benefit from trade and revenue.

The new wave of AI firms, however, will benefit from increased utility at your expense.

CIOs and CTOs in our network are seeing an increase in automated traffic to their infrastructure and are worried. These digital leaders represent a diverse set of sectors such as property, financial and professional services, tech firms, academia, manufacturing, media, and charities. With one reporting a 400 percent increase in AI-generated website crawling. Distributed cloud computing platform provider Akamai reported in its recent State of the Internet report that AI-driven bot traffic had surged 300% in the ...