In Brief
Automated bots that index web content for AI training or AI-powered search engines.
AI crawlers are web crawlers operated by AI companies to index content for training language models or powering AI search features. Examples include GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), and Google-Extended (Google AI). Website owners can control AI crawler access via robots.txt. Allowing AI crawlers can improve content visibility in AI-generated responses.