A VPN, or virtual private network, is an important tool for privacy and security. It works by hiding your IP address from public view, helping you access content that might be region-restricted or censored. Many VPNs, like Windscribe, also offer additional features, such as ad blocking. 

But it may never have occurred to you to give your AI agent VPN access, too. 

If you use OpenClaw, ChatGPT or one of the many other LLMs with access to the internet, your autonomous AI agent can now take advantage of the same privacy and security features. 

Gen Digital's VPN for AI agents, from the company behind big names like Norton and Avast, will now let you route your autonomous AI agent through its VPN for Agents. It's available through the Gen Agent Trust Hub and powered by Norton VPN. 

"Using a VPN with an LLM can provide several advantages, such as keeping your identity private. Your internet provider won't be able to see your AI agent's activity, or that you're using an AI agent," said Moe Long, CNET senior editor. 

"You can also unblock regional content in an LLM. Running your VPN through an AI agent may let you avoid traffic throttling or blocked access. Gen's VPN for AI Agents works with multiple AI agents, doesn't require any downloads or client setup, and has multiple tunnel tech that lets you run several agents simultaneously through a VPN." 

Long said more people are turning to AI agents, but those agents often access the internet without additional protection, meaning your IP address is associated with all their activities. That means not only does your ISP see your activities via the AI agent, but the agent also can't access regional content or bypass throttling or restricted access.

Windscribe recently debuted OpenClaw agent support, and Gen Digital now has a VPN that supports multiple LLMs, including OpenClaw and ChatGPT. The company told me over email that its VPN is designed to work with all AI agents on the market. 

"One of the biggest challenges was that AI agents don't operate like traditional users, so we had to design for entirely new environments and behaviors from the ground up," Howie Xu, Chief AI & Innovation Officer at Gen Digital, said in an email. "For example, instead of a single session, agents can run multiple tasks simultaneously, which means building support for independent, parallel connections with clear boundaries." 

Attila Tomaschek, CNET senior writer, said that Windscribe expresses it in its blog post, where the company notes: "If your agent gets a little too enthusiastic and triggers a security challenge or lands on a blocklist, it's your digital reputation on the line, and potentially your entire home network that takes the hit."

"Perhaps most importantly, your ISP can't distinguish between your own internet traffic and that of your autonomous AI agent," said Tomaschek. "But with this integration, as well as with Windscribe's, the VPN encrypts the agent's traffic as well, so basically you're protected from whatever your agent might autonomously get up to on the internet." 

However, Xu pointed out that the VPN's primary goal isn't necessarily to help users hide activity. "The VPN is just one part of our overall solution to help give users more visibility into what their agents are doing," said Xu. "For example, the VPN allows users to separate agent traffic from personal traffic, which makes it easier. And overall, the goal of the VPN isn't to mask activity, it's to make agent behavior easier to understand and manage as this technology becomes more widely used."