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AI Agents Begin Autonomous Crawling of Government Websites
Original: AI Agents Are Starting to Wander Around Government Websites on Their Own. The Internet Wasn’t Built for This.
Autonomous AI agents are increasingly browsing government websites on their own, following links, filling forms and retrieving information without direct human instruction. The report argues the internet's architecture was not designed for machine-driven traffic of this kind, raising concerns about server loads, security and accountability. The discussion feeds a wider debate over how public services should handle automated visitors as agent-based AI tools proliferate.
Why now: Rapid growth in autonomous AI browsing is raising fresh concerns about infrastructure strain and governance of public websites
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- AI Agents Are Starting to Wander Around Government Websites on Their Own. The Internet Wasn’t Built for This. · Times Square Chronicles
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