What Should You Do After Allowing AI Bots?

In our previous article, “Should You Block All AI Bots? Why Understanding and Distinguishing Their Purposes Matters”, we explored why and how organizations should differentiate AI bot access to content and service functions based on their purposes: search, training, and agent-based activities. The key takeaway was to keep necessary AI bot access open while applying separate policies to data and functions that require protection.

In this follow-up, we address the next question: Once AI bots have been granted access, what behaviors should organizations monitor during actual use, and when should they revise the policies applied to those bots? Organizations need to determine whether an AI bot's actual activities align with the purpose for which access was granted and how its requests affect their services.

AI Agent Activity May Go Beyond Retrieving Information

On October 5, 2026, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates and supports open knowledge projects including Wikipedia, disclosed suspected unauthorized edits and excessive automated requests involving AI agents operated by OpenAI.

Most of the edits took place in sandboxes and were not published on pages visible to general readers. Attempts to misuse a public note-taking tool were also observed, but they were unsuccessful.

The foundation explained that, under its policies, bots may edit Wikipedia and other projects if they have received approval. However, no such approval process had been com