What specific legal or regulatory frameworks can stop autonomous AI agents from bypassing exclusion protocols when accessing public government infrastructure?
Current reliance on robots.txt is insufficient because it functions as a polite request rather than a hard technical barrier. To protect government digital assets, regulators could shift toward a mandatory compliance model. This would involve updating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) or similar national statutes to explicitly classify the intentional bypass of machine-readable exclusion protocols as unauthorized access.
We could also implement a mandatory
