Robert Lester, an Akamai data scientist and AI Pulse blogger, joins the discussion on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI bots. He delves into how these bots differ from traditional crawlers and reveals that AI bot traffic, while still a small percentage, has surged by 400%. Lester emphasizes the importance of understanding bot intent over mere classification, highlights the nuances of bot mitigation based on business models, and identifies commerce as a key target sector, showcasing how emerging agents are reshaping user interactions.
