AI agent traffic predicted to reach 1,000 times human traffic in five years

TBPN quoted Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicting that AI agent traffic will reach 1,000 times human traffic in five years. Prince said the added demand for servers, routers and bandwidth raises the question of who pays. He floated tiny payments when agents access resources, potentially waived when visitors share what they want. He also suggested sites might pay for visits and asked how advertising to agents would work.