I don't believe so, it's more likely due to having Behaviour Changes enabled.
It sounds like your gear file options aren't set up properly. Make sure optimized loading is disabled, if you want to edit bot inventories.
So if I disable Optimized loading that would allow me to edit the gear files for the AI?
EDIT: Tried setting optimized loading to False and then editing the bot inventories and checking if the file reverts back to default and it doesn't work. Why does it keep reverting back to default I'm confused.