- Monday 16 February 2026
- 08:30 - 12:00 EST
Keeping the Robots in Line: Provisioning Access to Content for AI Systems
Session Description
Laurel AB
Over the past year, there has been an explosion of web traffic to content sites driven by machine access ingesting content for AI tools. Publishers, repositories, content aggregators, and platform providers all have reasons—and sometimes business cases—to allow agentic AI to access their content. A publisher may choose to license some of its content to an LLM developer, or to provide subscribed access to users who want to use AI tools An open access repository may allow researchers to use AI to ingest its content and produce summaries or datasets. Whatever the case, allowing AI to access your content raises important security, systems stability, and interoperability issues, such as how to allow wanted AI agents in while keeping the unwanted out. In this session, speakers and participants will consider a range of ideas for managing AI access to content, with the goal of identifying possible best practices that work across the community to maintain service levels for humans while providing access to the robots.
