Blog Security How Search Engines, LLMs, and Third-Party Scrapers Affect Bot Management Christine Ferrusi Ross is a Product Marketing Director at Akamai, where she leads go-to-market messaging for the Application Security portfolio. Prior to Akamai, she worked with blockchain and security startups on product/market fit and positioning. She also spent many years as an industry analyst helping organizations buy and manage emerging technologies and services. AI bots bring many changes — and all the implications of those changes for organizations aren’t known yet. Luckily, AI bots are bots. Maybe you’ve been having conversations with your business and security teams regarding artificial intelligence (AI) scraper bots. After a period when blocking AI scrapers seemed futile — in fact, even harmful — there has recently been a renewed interest in the question of whether to block AI bots . \r\n There has been much debate lately on the  effectiveness and the usefulness of blocking AI bots .…