OpenAIRE has launched a Working Group on AI Bots and Repositories to tackle a critical infrastructure issue: AI systems are crawling member repositories at unprecedented scale, causing server overload, slower performance for real users, and higher costs, with no shared framework governing AI access to repository content. The group will collect evidence from members on bot traffic and costs, assess four solution options (technical mitigation, trusted content hubs, digital rights management using ODRL/OpenRel, and monitoring plus business models), and deliver an actionable recommendation.