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Web traffic analysis finds AI agent bot traffic has surpassed human internet traffic for the first time

The milestone arrived ahead of previous late-2026 forecasts.

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Erik Brynjolfsson@erikbryn#389inAI

The agent economy is growing faster than expected, even when you take into account that it will grow faster than expected.

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human

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Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human

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