softbot

A computer program that acts on behalf of a user or another program.

Noun

  1. A computer program that acts on behalf of a user or another program.
    • The Internet Softbot (software robot) is a fully implemented AI agent developed at the University of Washington. […] For example, the softbot but use netfind to determine David McAllester's email address. - 1998,...

Origin

From software + -bot.

Forms

softbots